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...case--and, if not her, then a great-aunt or similar grandma figure. This doesn't prove the grandma hypothesis for all times and all peoples, but it does strongly suggest that in the Stone Age family, Dad-the-hunter was not the only provider. The occasional antelope haunch might be a tasty treat, but as Hawkes and her co-workers conclude about the Hadza, "it is women's foraging, not men's hunting, that differentially affects their own families' nutritional welfare." If the grandma hypothesis holds up, we may have to conclude that the male-female pair bond...
When a blood-hungry mosquito lands on a human forearm -- or, more likely, on the eyelid of a cow, the haunch of a squirrel, the wing of a roosting bird or even the back of a caterpillar -- she goes to work with awesome efficiency. Her slender proboscis, consisting of two sharp and sometimes serrated cutting % tools surrounding a pair of tiny tubes, pierces the skin (and, if necessary, the cloth or feathers protecting it) and finds a capillary, bending to slide into the tiny blood vessel. Down one tube comes her saliva, which deadens sensation and blocks coagulation...
Last October a section of veneer in the statue's left haunch collapsed. The Egyptians postponed consideration of Gauri's plan, formed seven committees to study the problem, and began to repair the Sphinx's left side. In the Egyptian view, the main threat to the Sphinx is not from humidity but from the higher water table...
...just eyeball stuff" but, though it is crude (probably, if anything, too strong for its tonnage), it works visually. Sometimes the connectors are too busy, with all those nuts and bolts. But in works like Levi, 1975, the jacket of forged and cold-beaten metal encloses its granite haunch with an astonishing delicacy. Because they are structures and would wreak havoc if they slipped, one becomes aware of their properties as substance: the weight and crushing resistance of stone as against its brittleness in tension; the malleability and tensile strength of steel. Their articulateness goes beyond mere bulk...
...Southern Crescent creaks into South Station, and in a minute its passengers have disembarked and are walking to the terminal. Inside the newstand and bakery are closed, and only a few people here and there wait in the high-ceilinged, dimly-lit hall. A wiry, haunch-backed man, wearing a plain grey uniform, whistles softly as he sweeps the floor with a lazy push of his broom...