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Karpov, on the other hand, is what a Swiss newspaper called Homo sovieticus: a culture hero with close ties to the late leader Leonid Brezhnev, recipient of the Order of Lenin and a strong voice in the inner circle of Soviet chess. Owner of an impressive collection of rare stamps, the chilly and distant Muscovite is a well-known ruble millionaire who is rumored to be a dollar one as well. Although he enjoys rare Soviet amenities like a mobile telephone in his car, Karpov does not ignite the imagination. "Style?" he once puzzled. "I have no style...
...sure, the standards of Homo harvardius are considerably higher than its Yalie counterpart. But the quest to satisfy even this most demanding species is not one the administration has the luxury of shying away from. We are pleased with the renewed focus on improving student life, and should it continue, better survey results lie ahead...
...thousands of years, the bones of the tiny prehistoric people were preserved in a limestone cave on Flores, an Indonesian island. When news of their discovery broke last October, the remains of the 1-m-tall Homo floresiensis, nicknamed "hobbits," jolted the scientific world into rethinking the course of human development. Whether or not these relics from seven individuals, discovered by a team of Australian and Indonesian scientists led by archaeologist Michael Morwood, marked a new species, experts knew they were extremely important - and, it goes without saying, extraordinarily fragile...
...other nations declined to participate in the efforts of the Kyoto accord to save the planet. Dirk Roggeveen Voorburg, the Netherlands The Kyoto accord is not about saving the earth. It is about saving humankind for a while longer before accelerated climate change wipes out the not-very-wise Homo sapiens. If we were really smart, we would take into account our track record of raping the earth and devise an exit strategy for our self-indulgent species, leaving the planet to the invertebrates to carry on without us. Tim Symonds Burwash, England Calling the Kettle Black? re The viewpoint...
...victims' bodies (Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman are tipped to star). As Hollywood reinvigorates its product with injections of European culture, Tykwer's compatriots are relaxing and becoming more catholic in their approach to filmmaking. Volker Schlöndorff, the director of such classics as The Tin Drum and Homo Faber, whose latest, The Ninth Day, is about a Luxembourg priest in a Nazi concentration camp, interprets this as a sign of confidence. "For years young German directors have tried to make genre movies that just imitate the French," he says. "But over the past three or four years they...