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...that their evolutionary success -- and the subsequent thriving of the genus Homo as well -- was tied to climate changes taking place. About 2.5 million to 2.7 million years ago, an ice age sent global temperatures plummeting as much as 20F, prompting the conversion of moist African woodland into much drier, open savanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Man Began | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...those who just can't decide between the clever "Harvard Swallows" and the hip "Beavis and Butthead" motif, the Yale Co-op offers a tamer, if drier, option--"Yale vs. Harvard, `93." Coop sales staff admit that these are not exactly hot items...

Author: By Sonna Moon, | Title: Yale T-shirt Sale Yucks | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...same folk who had their high kultur now also have their high news. It is drier, more civilized and urbane--it does not pander to the passions, but engages the intellect...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: News Splits Along Cultural Lines | 7/20/1993 | See Source »

...also accomplished as a compiler of Russian jokes, which differ from Western humor by being much drier and often rather clunky, but are always pregnant with political satire...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Eyeing the New Russia | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

...taking this course, mahn, you no way be jammin'. You be most unhappy, mahn, like if the sheriff set your dreadlocks on fire. The reading be too long, mahn. Every page is drier than the Sahara and longer than Bob Marley's sacred dreads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confi-Guide Is Racist | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

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