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...past 20 years the Leakeys and others have dug up overwhelming evidence showing that between 2.5 million and 1 million years ago, the then lush woodlands and savannas of eastern Africa--where our family tree first took root--were the habitat of rival species, most of which were evolutionary dead ends. But what about before that? Paleontologists have generally agreed that there was just one hominid line, beginning with a small, upright-walking species known as Australopithecus afarensis, most famously represented by "Lucy," a remarkably complete (about 40%) skeleton found in Ethiopia...
...this point. The army rolled into Tetovo today. They're pounding the hillsides with heavy artillery, and there's talk of an offensive into the mountains sometime in the next couple of days to dislodge the guerrillas. But all the indications are not very promising. The rebels are dug in, and even if they're pushed back by an offensive, they won't simply go away...
...year on turnover of $2.2 million. Remarkably, Opera didn't receive any venture capital funding until last year. "Potential investors would come to us, but we're happy we didn't go with them," Von Tetzchner says. "For a small company with five employees they would have taken over, dug a grave and we'd be dead...
...Israelis have dug trenches across roads around Jericho and Bir Zeit, cutting those places off in the belief that it stops people from moving bombs and weapons around. But those trenches obviously also stop an ambulance from reaching those areas now, too. There's an awareness, though, on the Israeli side that Arafat might want them to do something really bad that would bring international condemnation, and possibly even international intervention in the West Bank and Gaza. So it's very unlikely that they'll go storming into Palestinian towns. But the situation remains very volatile and very unpredictable...
...order to review and revoke Clinton's rules, the Senate dug up the 1996 Congressional Review Act, a rarely used safety net that allows Congress to overturn federal regulations without holding hearings and without more than 10 hours of debate, and prohibits the reintroduction of "substantially similar" legislation to replace the dismissed rules...