Word: chimp
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...part of an international team led by U.S. and Ethiopian scientists, a graduate student named Yohannes Haile-Selassie (no relation to the Emperor), enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, has found the remains of what appears to be the most ancient human ancestor ever discovered. It's a chimp-size creature that lived in the Ethiopian forests between 5.8 million and 5.2 million years ago--nearly a million and a half years earlier than the previous record holder and very close to the time when humans and chimps first went their separate evolutionary ways...
...There were a few quality commercials, but my favorite was the E-Trade one with the chimp crying over the death of the dot-coms. The other E-Trade commercial with the dreaming security guard was also excellent. The Budweiser take-off of its own 'wassup' commercials ('what are you doing?') was cute, as was the Bud Light commercial of the guy who spills the beer on his girlfriend after dancing in the kitchen. The running of the squirrels and the Levi's donor jeans get unusually low marks, as do (as usual) all of Pepsi's attempts at humor...
...wrong: Clinton was better to comedians than any other President in the 20th century. Most Presidents give you one good hook--Ford fell off airplanes, Reagan made a movie with a chimp, Carter owned a peanut farm. But Clinton was wildly generous to the comedic mind. In 1992 he served up an exotic tapas buffet of premises that included his saxophone, his too-short jogging shorts, his light-switch "sincerity" and his McDonald's fetish. And as we began hungrily digging in, he emerged with a hearty stew of Gennifer Flowers, "I didn't inhale" and Whitewater...
...Given Americans a reason to apologize to Michael Dukakis b. Had a difficult first trimester c. Watched, but not participated in, a D-day parachute exhibition d. Somehow lost the rest of his unit 4. This chimp is excited because...
...dangers? Earlier this month researchers at a medical conference in London torpedoed the widely publicized claim that the AIDS epidemic began in Africa with the application 40 years ago of an oral-polio vaccine made from chimpanzee tissue. Tests of remaining samples of that vaccine revealed no evidence of chimp DNA. In fact, the best hope for combatting AIDS, and perhaps Alzheimer's too, lies in vaccines now under development...