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Earlier protohumans had used tools too -- bits of horn or bone for digging, sticks for fishing termites out of their mounds (something modern chimps still do). But H. habilis deliberately hammered on rocks to crack and flake them into useful shapes. The tools were probably not used for hunting, as anthropologists once thought; H. habilis, on average, was less than 5 ft. tall and weighed under 100 lbs., and it could hardly have competed with the lions and leopards that stalked the African landscape. The hominids were almost certainly scavengers instead, supplementing a mostly vegetarian diet with meat left over...
...moves denounced by the P.L.O. as merely "cosmetic," Israel vowed to crack down on extremist Jewish settlers in the occupied territories (but arrested only a handful) and released nearly 1,000 Palestinian detainees. Meanwhile, during rioting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over the Hebron mosque massacre, Israeli soldiers killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded dozens of others...
...engines of modern cryptography -- have proliferated, so have ever more powerful encryption algorithms. Telephones that offered nearly airtight privacy protection began to appear on the market, and in January U.S. computermakers said they were ready to adopt a new encryption standard so robust that even the NSA couldn't crack...
...think we have a good crack at it," Carpenter says. "The individuals on the team have come a long way, there's been a lot of individual improvements, and we've put it together in spurts...
...Time to crack open those course catalogs gathering dust on your shelves, my friends! Look up Anthropology 151, English 90uy, History 1662, History 1664, History 1680, Sociology 60 and Sociology 215--to name just a few of Harvard's many offerings...