Word: exoduses
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Since my dad wasn't around to tell me start with, say, Matthew, I started where you usually start a book--at the beginning, with Genesis. I read through Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel I & II. I thought Chronicles was kind of boring so I skipped over to Job (I remembered hearing about him before), Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon and Isaiah before my parents joined us three weeks later...
...evidence from Java holds up, it means that protohumans left their African homeland hundreds of thousands of years earlier than anyone had believed, long before the invention of the advanced stone tools that, according to current textbooks, made the exodus possible. It would also mean that Homo erectus had plenty of time to evolve into two different species, one African and one Asian. Most researchers are convinced that the African branch of the family evolved into modern humans. But what about the Asian branch? Did it die out? Or did it also give rise to Homo sapiens...
Apparently Gillis is not alone in her desire to escape. February and March are normally busy travel times, but this season's snow has caused a veritable mass exodus of frigiphobic New Englanders. Cristina Fernandez, a travel agent at Thomas Cook Travel, said that this year has seen a marked increase in the number of people seeking to travel to the Caribbean or go on cruises. "They definitely call a lot more when the weather's cruddy," she said...
...added that she will delay her departure as long as possible so she can help her successor adjust to the job. But office insiders have said in recent interviews that news of Patrick's imminent departure has already hurt office morale and touched off a minor exodus from the sixth-floor of Holyoke Center...
...city government is nearly broke as well, heading toward a $40 million shortfall next year. A largely white exodus to the suburbs has left blacks with a 65% majority and reduced the city's population from 557,000 in 1980 to 497,000 today. The shrinkage has intensified a rolling budget crisis that has forced severe cutbacks in social services to a growing underclass of jobless and low-income blacks: 54% of African-American families earn less than $15,000. "Agencies are all overwhelmed," says Julius Wilkerson, who runs a private outreach effort for high-risk youths. "We need...