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...seemingly endless flow of fresh money to major Third World creditors. That cash outflow only served to increase the bank's vulnerability, creating a vicious cycle with which other major banks are also painfully familiar. To reduce that exposure, Reed in 1985 directed that Citicorp begin to build up its offsetting reserves. That year the bank set aside $1.2 billion. Last year the total jumped again, to $1.7 billion...
Until now, most anthropologists have believed that Homo habilis, a species that lived in eastern and southern Africa between 2 million and 1.5 million years ago, stood about the same height and had the same body build as Homo erectus, its successor. Homo habilis (literally, handy man) was the first human ancestor to make stone tools. The new Olduvai Gorge skeleton, however, suggests that Homo habilis was much smaller and more apelike than previously thought. If that is the case, says Johanson, the modern body type probably did not evolve until Homo erectus emerged some 1.6 million years ago. Moreover...
...includes skull, arm bones, thigh and shin fragments from a single adult female, permits a more accurate assessment. The length of the thigh bone is a gauge of height, and the relative length of the upper arm bone to the upper leg bone is a vital clue to body build. The remains, described in the British journal Nature last week, belong to a creature that lived about 1.8 million years ago and stood no more than 3 1/2 feet tall. Says Johanson, director of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley: "This may be the smallest hominid ever found...
...Washington headquarters. There the information is merged into a manageable whole by an assembly of Apollo workstations and displayed via custom-designed software on as many as three dozen screens. The objective of the system is to provide centralized management of traffic problems as they may build up at any of the country's 12,500 airports. Cost of the new computer operation so far: about $2 million. The FAA's ultimate goal, though, is a multibillion-dollar air-traffic control ) system so highly automated that it can monitor flights and direct pilots with little or no human intervention...
...Mexico or a gold mine in South Dakota. But William Randolph Hearst, then 23, would have none of it. He wanted to run a newspaper, specifically a tawdry sheet in San Francisco called the Examiner. Father relented; in 1887 young Hearst assumed control of the Examiner and proceeded to build the largest newspaper empire...