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...nomination marathon. Yet his organization's own estimates put Wilson's total last week just above $6 million, in contrast to $17 million for Dole and more than $12 million for Gramm. TIME has learned not only that Wilson's fund raising has slowed to a dangerous crawl, but also that he recently let spending outrun income by as much as $1 million and that some vendors are not being paid. That deficit alone might be enough to jeopardize the campaign next month when it files its third-quarter Federal Election Commission report. Wilson is now making money-raising phone...
...pursuit of more" is part of human instinct, then so is the pursuit of better. Human progress calls not for a return to the nontechnological past but for a progression into a more social and altruistic future. And someday, like the first creatures to crawl out of the sea onto land, humankind will pull itself out of a system that inhibits and abuses the individual and move on to something better. Let's just hope we can make it through the journey. SCOTTIE WINGFIELD Winchester, Virginia...
...officers were shot in 1978, he and some other cops brutally beat four suspects. "We basically tortured them. We broke 'em," Fuhrman boasts. "Their faces were just mush. They had pictures of the walls with blood all the way to the ceiling and finger marks of [them] trying to crawl out of the room." Afterward, says Fuhrman, the officers were so bloody they cleaned themselves up with a garden hose...
About 360 million years ago, as any schoolchild who knows his prehistoric zoology can tell you, some adventurous fish managed to hoist themselves onto their stubby fins and crawl clumsily out of the swamps to forage for food. Once these primeval creatures were on terra firma, their offspring began to adapt to their new environment, natural selection (over tens of millions of years) favoring those that developed features well suited to life on land: paws, hooves, knees, joints, fingers and thumbs. Thus, as generations of schoolchildren have learned, did these marine creatures give rise to frogs, birds, dinosaurs...
What would a fish with feet look like? It could easily resemble the Acanthostega. Mineralized bones of this strange creature, unearthed in Greenland in 1987, tend to confirm the notion that fish did not crawl onto shores on their fins, says paleontologist Michael Coates of University College, London. Instead they probably developed limbs and feet that they used in the water for millions of years before they were capable of colonizing the land...