Word: grasslands
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According to conventional wisdom, this evolutionary breakthrough came at a time when climate change was transforming eastern and 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...
...first outpost of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army as it tries to fight its way into the province. The army has a long way to go. NATO bombing has pushed Serbian armor and artillery back two miles, but ahead of the K.L.A. lies the rolling grassland known to the Serbs as Metohija. The flatlands there are tank territory, and with no armor of their own, the lightly armed rebels cannot take and hold it. Kosare, though, is a strategic high ground, and the rebels say they are ready to hold it and even forge ahead. "[The Serbs] try to fight...
Visitors board Simba One, an oversize tram (seats 32) that will take you on a safari through "the Serengeti grassland system," and as one fellow steps into the open-air vehicle, he asks, "Is it air-conditioned?" No, mate, this is reality. Real crocodiles lazing primordially below that rickety bridge. Actual cheetahs motoring their stretch-limo bodies across the savanna. Genuine loamy smell over there near the warthog. (Hakuna matata, guys--it's only nature's perfume...
...Clinton had not become President, Ellen Tauscher's political career could never have been born. California Congresswoman Tauscher represents a district that until 1992 did not exist, a swath of Bay Area suburbia that only decades ago was empty grassland. Not long ago, upscale, sun-drenched suburbs like hers were solid Republican territory. But that was before the religious right colonized the G.O.P. So the well-educated secularites of the suburban Bay began in the '80s to lean Democratic and were ripe for the wonkish Clinton. He was fiscally disciplined, culturally tolerant and enthusiastic about the high-tech industries...
...mystifying landscape, sprinkled with mountains, desert canyons and grassland, supports South Dakota's second-largest industry: tourism. Despite the beauty of places like Mount Rushmore, it's hard to disguise the poverty of Indians living on reservations in a state enjoying an economic upturn. Though the state has only one congressional district, it is the nation's second most populous one. South Dakotans usually vote for the Republican presidential candidate, but give Democrats a fair chance of making it to Congress. An interesting anomaly, noted by the Rapid City Journal: all four congressional candidates have Internet home pages, but only...