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...arid badlands of northern Ethiopia's Hadar region have long been a fossil-hunter's paradise. It was there, two decades ago, that paleontologists unearthed the celebrated Lucy, a primitive ancestor of modern humans dating back more than 3 million years. On this trip, though, an international team of scientists was on the trail of something less ancient but much more mysterious. Somewhere between 2 million and 3 million years ago, experts believe, Lucy's descendants had evolved into true humans. But despite decades of searching, scientists had yet to find a single well-dated fossil that showed...
...they have. And there's plenty of evidence of climate change at the Hadar site. Near the jaw and tools, the team recovered fossils of grazing antelopes, indicative of an open, fairly grassy habitat, rather than forest-dwelling species like impala, which were so prevalent in Lucy's time...
...Washington Post, though, did not have muchtrouble defining the event. The Post will run its350th stories in the paper's "Style" pages. "It'sa ceremonial event, and that's where we coverceremonial events," says Mary Hadar, the Post'sstyle editor...
...Knesset, free-speech advocates decried Hammer's decision, while conservatives supported it, regardless of party. The expulsion of the Arabs, said the Labor Party's Amos Hadar, "is the heart of the [Middle East] problem. The film will be a weapon in the hands of Arafat." Said Kalman Kahane, a member of the Poalei Agudat Israel religious party: "I'm definitely for democracy. But when there is an excessive democracy which harms the state's interests, I'm ready to put up with some sort of limitation...
...Hadar then described the prevalent schools of thought with which Israel should integrate in order to combat the isolation set upon the country by the U.A.R