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Miss Cynthia Irwin, a Harvard graduate student, discovered the remains of a mastodon, an extinct elephant-like animal, together with scrapers and other human tools dating back some 30,000 years. Excited by the discovery, a number of U.S. archaeologists and paleontologists have left for El Horno - a site about ten miles from Puebla, Mexico - to examine the findings...
...industry gets into the Common Market, American executives are being thrown into increasingly intimate contact with Europe's managerial class-and are finding it a different breed. European industry, reports University of Wisconsin Professor David Granick. is run by a species of businessman almost extinct in the U.S.-men bound by strict traditions of social class, aloof toward subordinates, and profoundly skeptical of the U.S. notion that corporate management is a separate branch of knowledge that can be learned in business school...
...have always been called Rip by most of my male friends, Tony by most of my female friends, and Dodo (an extinct bird) by my grandchildren. Both my son Rip's and my forename is really Elmore. Rip is a nickname a Torn would receive, as surely as Dusty would be attached to the surname of Rhodes...
...pieces, the first and the last, saved the program. One of them, Schubert's Sonata Per Arpeggione (1824), actually transcribes for viola a work for an extinct instrument. A Viennese violin maker invented the six-stringed arpeggione in 1823 and for some reason Schubert wrote a masterpiece for it. Transcribed, the sonata is one of the mainstays of the viola repertoire. And Doktor, though he chose a questionable tempo to begin with, modulated it with good, sensitive rubatos where needed. Perhaps because he was just not warmed up, some of the technical display in the later movements came out more...
...theory of evolution the fact that few transitional forms of species have ever been found. His reasoning is fallacious. As Simpson points out, there are always many more adapted animals than transitional animals; probability alone would indicate that transition forms should be scarce millions of years after they became extinct...