Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the new discovery brings paleontologists closer to solving the mystery of Homo's origin, it still falls frustratingly short. Although the scientists found a nearly complete upper jaw, 10 teeth and a number of tooth fragments, they can't say for certain which species the fossil belongs to. By 1.9 million years ago, the Homo line had spawned at least two branches: Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis. The new fossil resembles both species in some ways, but without a more nearly complete skull it's impossible to say more. "What we have now is a hypothetical human lineage with...
...year in high school, and they went to both the junior and senior proms together. At the latter, Grossberg must already have been several weeks pregnant. They still seemed to be in love after heading off to different colleges, and perhaps their secret isolated them and drew them even closer. They didn't tell their parents or friends about the pregnancy or seek any counseling. Grossberg wore baggy clothes to hide her condition, although her college roommates reportedly suspected it. But they didn't feel they could discuss it with...
...tweeze out mutations that randomly occur and instead allows them to pass through to the next cellular generation. Accumulate enough glitches, and diseases of aging develop. "We know that DNA is being damaged at a high rate," he says. "Knowing that a helicase is responsible gets us closer to solving the mystery...
...told detectives he was approached by a man who, while holding an unidentified weapon in his hand, demanded the student's backpack, said Harvard police spokesperson Peggy S. McNamara. The student walked briskly away before the suspect could get any closer...
...committed religious conservative who found politics. He knows there is grumbling about him for tacitly backing Dole, a loser who hardly even touched on abortion and family issues in the campaign. Reed's defense--"It's hard to make the argument that this race would have been significantly closer if the nominee had been someone else" (Buchanan? Alan Keyes?)--is plausible enough. Even so, next time the pressure will be on Reed to find somebody agreeable to Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council and Phyllis Schlafly of the Eagle Forum, hard-liners who want a candidate like Bill Bennett...