Word: exceptional
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...team, and, in retirement, one of its most prominent voices ?- pipes up to the Dallas Morning News. The message: Contrary to six years of official denials, agents on the scene actually did fire tear gas canisters into the compound, canisters that burn hot and could have set something ablaze. Except that they didn?t cause the conflagration, says Coulson ?- they were fired hours before the blaze started and couldn?t have been responsible. Guess what? Admission/denials like that don?t satisfy anyone (just ask George W. Bush), and the Waco conspiracy-theory factory, long dormant, was up and running again...
...there has ever been. A few million years ago, most of us think, the half-ape known as Lucy appeared in Africa; eventually she begat a less apelike creature, who evolved in turn into something even more humanlike. Finally, after a few more begettings, Homo sapiens appeared. Except for that odd side branch known as the Neanderthals, the path from proto-apes to modern humans is commonly seen as a succession of new and improved species taking the place of worn-out evolutionary clunkers...
...Archaeology, and consultant Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., claim that the 24,500-year-old remains of a four-year-old child show a mix of human and Neanderthal features. The boy could simply be the love child from a single prehistoric one-night stand--except that the last true Neanderthals had disappeared from the area at least 3,000 years earlier. Plenty of experts are unwilling to be swayed by romance, however--especially the American Museum's Ian Tattersall, who says flatly, "It's just a chunky modern kid. There's nothing special about...
George W. Bush's press tactics have taken a hit. First it was the stonewall, vowing never to dignify questions about his admittedly "irresponsible" past (except ones about, say, adultery, that he could answer with certainty in the negative). Then the no-comments got angrier, and the press got hungrier, and on Wednesday in New Orleans the wall of privacy came tumbling down. Asked by the Dallas Morning News ? they win the trip-the-candidate prize ? about whether Bush would require that his appointees answer the drug-use question for FBI background checks, George W. bit. "As I understand...
...visitors just aren't polite. A sign that read WELCOME TO BURKITTSVILLE--FOUNDED IN 1824 was stolen, and someone left a candle burning in the cemetery. "That wouldn't have been a problem, except for the drought," says Sergeant Tom Winebrenner of the Frederick County sheriff's office, which fields 30 to 40 calls a day about the film. "Many still think it's a true story. When you tell them the truth, they think there's a conspiracy and a cover...