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...playwright, poet and novelist, Soyinka is considered one of contemporary Africa’s greatest literary voices. In 1986, he became the first person of African descent to win the Nobel Prize in Literature...
...modern man. Lucy's skeleton gave scientists their best clues yet to the proportions of Australopithecus, and revealed her to be surprisingly short-legged. But the find left no doubts that she walked erect ... As recently as a decade ago, scientists talked about a direct, unbranching line of descent ... Now all that has changed ... While his Australopithecus cousins foraged or scavenged, Homo habilis began to make tools and to hunt. Both actions accelerated his evolution ... "There have been thousands of living organisms," [Leakey] says, "of which a very high percentage has become extinct. There is nothing, at the moment...
...Fong] will be the first person of Asian descent to sit in the upper house of Congress. A handsome, graying man, he is an independent Republican and a self-made millionaire whose immigrant father came from Kwangtung province to work in the Oahu cane fields for $12 a month. The seventh of eleven children, Fong decided as a small boy to lift himself out of poverty, worked his way through high school by selling newspapers, shining shoes and caddying ... The University of Hawaii was tough, but Hiram Fong got through in three years with honors, with a bewildering collection...
...Fong] will be the first person of Asian descent to sit in the upper house of Congress. A handsome, graying man, he is an independent Republican and a self-made millionaire whose immigrant father came from Kwangtung province to work in the Oahu cane fields for $12 a month. The seventh of eleven children, Fong decided as a small boy to lift himself out of poverty, worked his way through high school by selling newspapers, shining shoes and caddying ... The University of Hawaii was tough, but Hiram Fong got through in three years with honors, with a bewildering collection...
Home proves more difficult somehow than the hospital. The house seems an empty shell. It surprises a strong, active character to find himself feeling weak in a way he never has before--flatline exhaustion, the descent of an Ice Age. You shuffle like an old man. You feel light as a leaf--a breeze would knock you down. The body's resources are busy repairing damage and do not have time, so to speak...