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Pedestrians were asked to stroll, strut, jump or crawl, across the sidewalk in front of the Brattle Street store. Their actions triggered infrared sensors which activated synthesized sounds...
...South Africa been plunged into this chaos? Why does the dismantling of Apartheid seem to have caused every crook to crawl out of his hole? The answer probably lies in fact that the abrupt changes in the old regime have weakened many of the institutions which formerly maintained order. The anti-Apartheid movement has challenged the authority of the national government, the army and the police force, whose grip over society has weakened. This, of course, has given the average person more liberty. Unfortunately, though, the lifting of the veil of repression has unleashed more than just the honest...
Such bargains reflect the financial environment of the 1990s, a period in which interest rates are the lowest in decades and the stock market is setting record highs. With inflation and economic growth both down to a crawl, the low cost of borrowing has become the prime mover of the tepid U.S. economic recovery and the key to how Americans save and invest...
...preserved 1.9 million-year-old skull of Homo habilis, an early hominid species first discovered by his parents. Ian Tattersall, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, observes that the younger Leakey has more than his share of luck. "Louis Leakey had to crawl over hot rocky outcrops for 30 years before he found anything of importance; Richard struck gold from the start." Roger Lewin, collaborator on three of Richard's seven books, points out that his larger- than-life personality, amplified by coverage in National Geographic magazine and a 1977 TIME cover, raised...
Looking for hard-hitting drama, classic battles between good and evil, stories that make your skin crawl and your blood boil? Prime time has plenty to offer. In the space of one week, you could visit a psychiatric hospital that (so the story claimed) confines teenage patients with fraudulent diagnoses so it can rake in the insurance money; watch an undercover investigator expose a sleazy gas-station operator who has been cheating customers; glimpse the glittery world of two bogus Hollywood producers charged with bilking investors; and meet a creepy forensic pathologist who is accused of falsifying autopsy reports...