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Earlier protohumans had used tools too -- bits of horn or bone for digging, sticks for fishing termites out of their mounds (something modern chimps still do). But H. habilis deliberately hammered on rocks to crack and flake them into useful shapes. The tools were probably not used for hunting, as anthropologists once thought; H. habilis, on average, was less than 5 ft. tall and weighed under 100 lbs., and it could hardly have competed with the lions and leopards that stalked the African landscape. The hominids were almost certainly scavengers instead, supplementing a mostly vegetarian diet with meat left over...
...state, 13 of them major. Flames shot 70 ft. in the air and made 50-ft. leaps across canyons and roads. Palm trees exploded; $1 million homes seemed to combust spontaneously. At the beach, black smoke hung over the surf, and in downtown Los Angeles a steady "snow" of flake-size ash fell. Elsewhere the embers glowed red and started new blazes. In many areas, day became night as soot obscured the sun, while a permanent "sunset," the orange glow of not-so-distant flames, eerily lit the horizon...
...American public is caught between a flake and politics as usual. This is hardly an unprecedented situation in American politics. There have been plenty of flakes--some of them presidents--and there has been lots of politics as usual. Unfortunately, the stakes are higher now. The ship of state is headed for the Chapter 11 shoals in a hurry...
...bluntly, Ross Perot is a wishy-washy flake who should receive a Texas-sized whoopin' for an incredibly irresponsible approach to his candidacy. I must admit that, as a fellow Dallasite who despises slimy political rhetoric, Perot's potential candidacy once excited...
...irony of 1992 is the effort to paint Perot as a flake--a man whose on-again/off-again routine makes him unfit for office. But, after months of bad-mouthing Perot, Bush and Clinton rushed to court his supporters the instant he bowed...