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...Kimbel and his colleagues that afarensis was indeed a single species, as they had believed all along. The arm bones, too, appear to bolster this idea. According to Leslie Aiello, an anthropologist at University College London, they have exactly the robust, curving form you would expect from a tree climber. The two sexes didn't have different kinds of skills, she says, but were both "a mosaic, bipedal from the waist down and arboreal from the waist...
...least one pressing "issue." Vicki (Janeane Garofalo) works at the Gap and is scared that she has AIDS. Sammy is gay and about to come out to his mom. Troy (Ethan Hawke) is in an alternative band called Hey, That's My Bike. Michael is an ambivalent corporate climber. Leleina looks for a job at a fast-food restaurant after losing her internship at a moronic TV show. All the characters seem to have divorced parents and a deep emotional attachment to some aspect of pop culture...
...result, not to put too fine a point on it, is aggressive, cathartic and constantly changing rock and roll. When non-"rock" elements get slipped in for a few seconds at a time, the songs are even cooler than that: "Physical Climber," for example, keeps the heavy groove described above going for several driving minutes before shifting into a pseudo-classical ride up the notes on the necks of two guitars; the total contrast between the new prettiness and what came before it becomes the whole point of the song. Lyrics on most of aMINIATURE's songs are muttered...
...Leni Riefenstahl walked up to Luis Trenker, star of German mountain movies, and said, "I'm going to be in your next picture." She was a dancer, not an actress -- and not a mountain climber, as the amused star pointed out. "I can do it if I make up my mind to," she asserted. As soon as Trenker's director, Arnold Fanck, saw her photo, he wrote a starring role for her in his next film...
...Western region national parks, including Yosemite, there were no fatalities and 103 rescues last year, and one fatality and 56 rescues in 1991. Rescues there were far more expensive, at $1,135,000 for '92 and $1,284,000 for '91. Park Service expense accounts aside, as any climber knows, most of the risk and sweat of mountain rescues in the U.S. is borne by amateur volunteers. To a considerable extent, climbers look out for themselves...