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Scientists have been scouring the African continent for fossils from the earliest humans ever since 1871, when Charles Dar win first proposed that people and apes had a common ancestor. Kanapoi and Allia Bay, the sites where Leakey and Walker made their discoveries, lie about a day's drive north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ON ITS OWN TWO FEET | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

Apocalyptic grumblers in the north of the U.S. are sometimes heard to say that what the nation needs for its spiritual and environmental health is another Ice Age, a mile-thick, continent-wide ice sheet, heading south. In Florida they do not say this. Florida has hurricanes, and when satirist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: LITTLE RASCALS: SATIRIST CARL HIAASEN | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

The Seawolf Submarine. The problems speak for themselves. Perhaps more blatantly than the other measures, this nuclear sub reveals the vast inadequacies of Cold War technology in dealing with today's security needs. What, in the absence of Red October, do we propose to hunt? The value of such an...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: A Poor Prognosis for Foreign Policy | 8/8/1995 | See Source »

Does containment mean cold war II, with China playing the part of the old Soviet Union? Not quite. There is no ideological component to this struggle. Until late in life, the Soviet Union had ideological appeal, with sympathizers around the globe. Today's China, unlike Mao's, has no such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY WE MUST CONTAIN CHINA | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

The discovery of the sophisticated cave paintings in the south of France and the announcement that they are the oldest ever found should indeed throw "the entire notion of progressive artistic development into question," as suggested by a French official [SCIENCE, June 19]. Anthropology will remain in the kindergarten of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1995 | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

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