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...Berkeley, has found the remains of what appears to be the most ancient human ancestor ever discovered. It's a chimp-size creature that lived in the Ethiopian forests between 5.8 million and 5.2 million years ago--nearly a million and a half years earlier than the previous record holder and very close to the time when humans and chimps first went their separate evolutionary ways...
When Haile-Selassie compared the newly discovered bones and teeth with those of Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old hominid found in the Middle Awash in the early 1990s that was the previous record holder, he realized that the two creatures were very similar. But the older one's teeth, while different from an ape's, do have a number of characteristics that are decidedly more apelike than those of the younger hominid...
With the win, Harvard expected a difficult race in the final on Sunday, July 8, against Oxford Brookes University, a premier English crew and holder of the Temple Challenge Cup course record with its winning time...
...Roger may be keeping up the Clinton tradition of ethical vagaries. But it's not clear that any of his activities are illegal. That was the conclusion of a high-level Justice Department meeting late last year involving Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, independent counsel Robert Ray, and top FBI officials, sources told TIME. They'd been investigating various allegations about the trouble-prone half brother, but concluded that there wasn't enough evidence to proceed. Justice Department officials told the FBI to feel free to present new material if it turned...
Clever reached his top distance on his third throw of the preliminaries to lead his flight. He was in third place going into the finals, but American record-holder Tom Pukstys—now in the twilight of his career—reached 74.49 meters on his second throw to bump him out of the top three spots. Clever failed to reach the 70-meter mark in any of his last three throws...