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...gave the impression of incoherence and misfit randomness. Two pairs of brass instrument players, using trumpets and trombones, donned an array of sweaters, T-shirts, jeans and slacks in a piecemeal collection of colors and fabrics. As the dark-dressed bass player crouched near the drums, the lead singer/guitarist burst on stage with a screaming electric blue Hawaiian shirt, checkered rim sunglasses and a blinding smile...
...Olduvai Gorge, the famous Great Rift Valley site in Tanzania where the Leakeys did much of their digging, Mary worked her fossil-hunting magic again 10 years later. While Louis lay feverish in his tent, she burst in, shouting "I've got him! I've got him--our man!" The find, consisting of two bulges of brown fossilized molars protruding from a slope, turned out to be the skull of a 1.75 million-year-old human ancestor the Leakeys called Zinjanthropus ("Man from East Africa"). The discovery, notes paleoanthropologist F. Clark Howell of the University of California, Berkeley, marked...
...leak to the San Juan Gas Company several days ago. Utility company workers were continuing repairs this morning when the blast occurred. Up to 15 people are believed missing, possibly trapped under the piles of mangled debris. The explosion was so powerful that shards of glass and concrete burst through the windows of a nearby elementary school, but none of the students were hurt...
Dunlap, 59, is a talkative, roll-up-the-sleeves corporate turnaround specialist who burst onto the scene with a remarkably short, lucrative and controversial tour as CEO of venerable Scott Paper in 1994 and '95. The maker of Viva and ScotTowels asked him to shake things up. So Dunlap sold billions of dollars in assets, chopped 35% of the work force, paid down debt and refocused the firm. By the time Scott was sold to Kimberly-Clark late last year, its stock had tripled, and Dunlap, via generous stock options and grants, had tucked away $100 million for himself...
Bigham, owner of Thursdays Too restaurant in Rock Hill, burst onto the political scene in 1994, coming within four points of beating incumbent John Spratt--who had never won with less than 61% of the vote. Better known than two years ago, Bingham is determined to carry his reformist platform to victory, advocating term limits, citizen legislators and limitations on PAC contributions, while linking his opponent to Clinton's "liberal agenda...