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...movies, this will come as a surprise. In such films as Legally Blonde, Charlie's Angels and Old School, he plays characters of unsurpassed earnestness and passivity--the straight man to such showy blonds as Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz and Will Ferrell (who's actually more of a sandy brunet...
...Iraq, writing in his letter to Hlavínová that he would give President George W. Bush "the red card" if he could "get him." He also criticized the Czech health and education systems. But his unrequited love for Hlavínová, a petite brunet with soft brown eyes and a serious face, played a role as well. She says Másl became depressed after he confessed his love last year and she asked for more time. "I am afraid I was probably one of the reasons," Hlavínová says...
...other hand, we are learning that each letter in that text can spell the difference between blond and brunet, tall and short, life and death. A woman who carries a mutation in the BRCA1 gene can have a seven times greater chance of developing breast cancer. Scientists in Utah last week announced the discovery of a gene that seems to predispose carriers to depression. We are learning these things in part because of Watson, who, having revealed the simplicity of DNA's structure, wanted to explore the complexity of its function. He helped persuade Congress to fund the Human Genome...
According to many anthropologists, Brunet's discovery supports the idea that evolutionary diversity was true for hominids as well. "My guess," Wood offers, "is that Sahelanthropus is the first of what will turn out to be a whole handful of apes and apelike creatures living throughout Africa 6 or 7 million years ago." In this bushy model of evolution, even a remarkably modern face might not guarantee that Brunet's new hominid was a direct ancestor of modern humans. Maybe it was just one of several modern-looking hominids that arose at about the same time...
That all made sense until field scientists, including White, began finding early hominids who lived in partly wooded places, not pure savanna. As deduced from the sorts of animals Brunet found at Toros-Menalla, that seems to be the kind of environment Sahelanthropus inhabited as well. With the simple climate theory already on the way out, paleontologists have come up with other ideas. They now believe that woods survived in the changed climate but were probably interspersed with patches of savanna--precisely the setting in which Brunet found Toumai...