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...world's weather triggered punishing rains in Ethiopia. The deluges not only exposed buried fossils but also drove away the people of Herto and their livestock, which would have trampled the fragile bones. When White and the others happened to drive by the village, they noticed a fossil hippo skull poking out of the ancient sand. On closer examination, the skull bore marks indicating that the animal had been gashed with a stone tool. Clearly, human ancestors had once lived there...
...described particular “hotspots” around the world, such as the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, that face acute danger from HIPPO...
...years of scholarship, which includes Augustine of Hippo andWorld of Late Antiquity and totals more than 50 books and articles, has focused on the development of Christianity in the years following the collapse of pagan Rome...
DIED. TOVE JANSSON, 86, Finnish artist and author whose hippo-like trolls, the Moomins, delighted postwar readers and whose books were translated into 35 languages; in Helsinki. She got the original idea during the Nazi rise to power; seeing a quote from Immanuel Kant on a wall, she scribbled cant! and drew an ugly troll next to it. She wanted to write fairy tales but felt princesses were inappropriate to such bleak times. The Guardian called her Moomins "among the greatest creations of children's literature...
...DIED. TOVE JANSSON, 86, the creator of Finland's beloved Moomin trolls; in Helsinki. Jansson wrote and illustrated the original Moomin books, whose tales of the eccentric, hippo-like creatures spawned comic strips, cartoon series and even theme parks. She is also celebrated for her illustrations in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and in an edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. DIED. JOAN SIMS, 71, the British queen of the double entendre; in London. Best remembered for the bawdy, farcical Carry On series of comedy films, she also had a successful stage and TV career. DIED...