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...southern Africa from dense forest into open grassland. Standing upright in such an environment could have offered our ancestors many advantages. It could have let them scan the horizon for predators, exposed less body surface to the scorching equatorial sun (and, conversely, more to the cooling wind) or freed their hands for carrying food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up From The Apes | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

There's another benefit: it's therapeutic. Heart's Ann Wilson says that talking about how her obesity and industry sexism helped derail the band in the '80s left her feeling "freed up, because once you talk about it, it can no longer eat you alive." Fabrice Morvan, half of Milli Vanilli (his partner Rob Pilatus died of a drug and alcohol overdose last year), says, "For the first time I could show who I was as a person and an artist. I felt a sense of respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Rock-'n'-Roll Confidential | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...museum was right. Of course they kept their slaves, and so did the entire state of Kentucky. Kentucky never joined the Confederacy and Lincoln's proclamation only applied to states in rebellion. So, in essence, Lincoln freed slaves he had no immediate power to free and kept enslaved those who he did indeed have the opportunity to free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters to the Editor | 7/16/1999 | See Source »

...museum was right. Of course they kept their slaves, and so did the entire state of Kentucky. Kentucky never joined the Confederacy and Lincoln's proclamation only applied to states in rebellion. So, in essence, Lincoln freed slaves he had no immediate power to free and kept enslaved those who he did indeed have the opportunity to free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Southern Civil War Museums Shouldn't Reflect Northern Bias | 7/16/1999 | See Source »

...findings show how important it is for researchers to look at the whole population and not just patients in university hospitals, where the worst cases are usually referred. By examining a broad cross section of adults in the long-running Framingham Heart Study, Dr. Lisa Freed and her colleagues found only 2.4% of subjects had mitral-valve prolapse and that half those cases consisted of less harmful variations on normal cardiac design. They also found the condition to be equally uncommon among women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Of Heart | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

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