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...main streets of Cuzco, the majestic Inca capital of Peru, are still slumbering in the half-light between dawn and day as minibuses and taxis take tourists to the small San Pedro rail station. There, behind the chaotic stalls of the city market, crowds jostle in the entrance waiting for the three services that run from Cuzco to the famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. The most comfortable and costly of the three services is the one-stop, 3 1/4-hour Inca service that leaves Cuzco at 6:15 a.m. daily for Machu Picchu. For railroad buffs, this 70-mile Cuzco...
...stretched out in the lower double, rocked luxuriously by the train's rhythm, starting awake briefly now and then to the thump of new passengers' gear being stowed and beds being made up. At dawn, after 10 stops, most of which we had slept through, we woke to peer down at the muddy train yard at Memphis, Tenn., where an engine problem kept us longer than scheduled. The lyrics of the Steve Goodman song ran through my head: "Changin' trains in Memphis, Tennessee, halfway home, we'll be there by morning, through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down...
...humid Asian rain forests on feet no bigger than rice grains. Shy nocturnal creatures, they snapped up insects and nectar as quickly as their tiny bodies could digest them, all the while trying to avoid becoming a meal themselves for nightly predators such as owls. Meet Eosimias, the "dawn monkey"--what some experts are calling the primate equivalent of the missing link...
Continuing their excavations, Gebo's team hopes that prize may yet turn up at the fossil-rich site in China. But even without it, dawn monkey's tiny feet have given us the best glimpse so far of what our primate forebear might have looked like...
Within the past month, riot-geared officers wielding clubs and pepper spray forced their way into the student-occupied chancellor's office of the University of Wisconsin, arresting more than 50 protesters as dawn broke over the campus...