Word: eves
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Breaking Through the Algae To human eyes, the world on the eve of the Cambrian explosion would have seemed an exceedingly hostile place. Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward, hurling avalanches of rock, sand and mud down their flanks. The climate was in turmoil. Great ice ages came and went as the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans endured some of the most spectacular shifts in the planet's history. And in one way or another, says Knoll, these dramatic upheavals helped...
...Beethoven's 10th would have been anticlimactic. The clock on the Sunday edition of abc's Beatles Anthology didn't help: Two minutes to Free as a Bird ... one minute ... 15 seconds ... as if it were a countdown to a very special Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve. Coming at the end of two hours of good music and great vibes, this souped-up, no-muffler megaproduction of John Lennon's wispy little air made the surviving Beatles sound--and their longtime fans feel--very old indeed...
...EVE, GREET ADAM
...chromosome, scientists think they've found evidence that 188,000 years ago there was an ancestral "Adam," whose genetic material on the chromosome is common to every man now on earth. Eight years ago, scientists using a different method of genetic sleuthing discovered evidence of an ancestral "Eve," who probably lived some 200,000 years...
...eve of the biggest NATO operation in history, the French general charged with U.N. peacekeeping in Sarajevo was ordered back to Paris today after having condemned the Dayton peace agreement. "I refuse to have my soldiers condemned to watch an exodus of Serbs who will burn their houses before leaving," a French newspaper quoted General Jean-Rene Bachelet as having said over the weekend. Bachelet reportedly added that the peace pact, which puts the divided city under control of the Muslim-Croat federation, would force the Serbs of Sarajevo to choose between "the suitcase or the coffin." The French Defense...