Word: homo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...point I make is that, goddammit, I do not think that you glorify on public TV homosexuality...You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that. So was Socrates...The last six Roman emperors were fags...
...studio with a dismal animation track record, but also because a curious 30% of the audience was what Hollywood calls "nonfamily" moviegoers. In other words, the audience was not just moms and dads and kids--they are to be expected--but also young adults and teens, including the species Homo adolescence, teenage boys who usually avoid anything without action-adventure or Adam Sandler...
...long time, many scientists believed that the human life-span was infinitely extendible. The average life-span early in the evolution of Homo sapiens is thought to have been just 20 years. By the beginning of the 20th century, that figure more than doubled--to a still brief 47. Since then, however, life expectancy has been exploding, with people in the developed world now able to live deep into their 70s and often beyond...
...philosophy. Foes of cloning (and of abortion, further down the line) are often accused of being irrational, of basing their morality on religious dogma rather than hard evidence. But which point of view, one wonders, is more irrational—the view that an individual and unique homo sapiens comes into existence at conception (it does—ask any scientist), or the view that embryos only “become human” when they leave the petri dish and are implanted in the uterus? What exactly is the magic of location, anyway...
...DIED. JIA LANPO, 92, Chinese archaeologist who directed the Peking Man excavation; in Beijing. Over six decades, Jia helped unearth a record 45 Homo erectus fossils from the Zhoukoudian site near Beijing. He discovered the first Chinese hominid fossils dating from the Pleistocene era that began 1.8 million years ago, bolstering the theory that modern Chinese are descended from these early men. DIED. WALLACE REYBURN, 87, war correspondent and author of 25 books, including Rehearsal for Invasion, the first-hand account of the ill-fated Dieppe raid of 1942; in London. A deadpan wit, he raised eyebrows with Flushed with...