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...think she so successfully captured the public imagination? It's not particularly common for a fossil to become a household name. I think she's captured the public's attention for a number of reasons. One, she's fairly complete. If you remove the hand bones and foot bones, she's 40% complete, so one actually gets an image of an individual, of a person. It's not just like looking at a jaw with some teeth. People can envision a little three-and-a-half foot tall female walking around. Also, I must say, her name is one that...
...understand who she was is that the evidence for human evolution is irrefutable. She broadcasts that loud and clear. And not only Lucy, but many of the other fossils that have been found since, that we are all united by our past, that we all have a common history and though we may be vastly different, our origins all lead back to the crucible of human evolution that is Africa. She's announcing: "You are all my descendants and regardless of who we are, we are all, in fact today, Africans." (See the top 10 museum exhibits...
...live in Pfoho. This past Friday saw the first ever HoCo-sponsored Pfoho Sleepover, replete with scary movies, board games, and gratuitous Britney and NSYNC videos. FM dropped by for a closer look at the pre-pubescent revelry. 11:14 p.m. I wander into a darkened common room as the group of slumber party guests watched “The Ring.” There’s popcorn and cookies aplenty, but only about ten people sprawled around the television. 11:35 p.m. Krista E. Weiss ’09, former HoCo executive and the brains behind the slumber...
Subscriptions to pornography Web sites are slightly more common in traditionally conservative “red states” than in more democratic “blue states,” a Harvard Business School study reported this week. Benjamin G. Edelman ’02, a professor at the Harvard Business School who conducted the study, found a statistically significant correlation between porn subscription rates and residency in states which have passed conservative legislation on sexuality. Higher subscription rates were also present in states in which people were likely to agree with statements such...
...Hopkins University estimated that more than 100,000 women were killed by fires in a single year - more than six times the number reported by police. The study also found that young women were three times as likely to be killed by fires than male peers. "These deaths share common causes," the authors write, "including kitchen accidents, self-immolation, and different forms of domestic abuse." But because no national database exists to track such injuries or fatalities, the public-health risk has largely gone unnoticed. (See pictures from the deadly attacks on Sri Lankan cricketers...