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...This article consists of a complex??illustration. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Source: Neil Shubin, University of Chicago 380 million years ago BEFORE TIKTAALIK Lobe-finned fish had forelimbs suitable for moving in water but not on land 375 million years ago TIKTAALIK The forelimbs had the beginnings of fingers and a wrist, wrapped inside a fin 360 million years ago AFTER TIKTAALIK Tetrapod forelimbs have wrists and digits used for crawling on land [This article consists of a complex??illustration. Please see hardcopy of magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Cousin The Fishapod | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...wove sentences difficult to follow in both their complexity and delivery. He was choppy, his voice unsteady. But as he warmed to his argument, he relaxed, smiled at his opponent's exaggerations and showed flashes of spontaneity and an eloquence exceeding Ford's. The President was more consistent, somewhat complex???and also more predictable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: When Their Power Failed | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...keep some of its activities secret in the national interest, and of the press to keep a democratic society informed of what its officials have done. Reacting with unusual speed because of the gravity of the issues?and apparently also because the Justices did not find them overly complex???the Supreme Court held a rare Saturday hearing and a decision was imminent (see following story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Ellsberg: The Battle Over the Right to Know | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

Invisible Supermen. Why has God become so hard to believe in, so easy to dismiss as a nonbeing? The search for an answer begins in the complex???and still unfinished?history of man's effort to comprehend the idea that he might have a personal creator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: Toward a Hidden God | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...sounded the neighing of horses, bellowing of elephants, laughing of hyenas, screeching of monkeys. The Garden's roof was a maze of ropes and wires, its floor a carpet of earth, sawdust and manure. In the air blue with tobacco smoke hung an odor as unmistakable as it is complex??? acrid wild animal mixed with sawdust, hemp, tar, leather and gunpowder?the immemorial smell of Circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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