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...million-year-old jawbone fragment, teeth and primitive tools found in a cave in central China support the theory that the ancestors of modern humans began migrating out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years earlier than once thought. Scientists believe the remains may belong to a species called Homo habilis, a precursor of Homo erectus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: NOVEMBER 12-18 | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...Hugheses with the epic-size Dead Presidents, Smith with the loosey-goosey comedy Mallrats. Joining them in the ambition to reach a wider audience is gay cult fave Gregg Araki, who gives his new tragi-comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living End and Totally F***ed Up is itching to break out, on his own terms. But straight or gay, black or white, these directors are defining the rage and wild wit of their peers who feel swamped in helplessness. The party's over, slackers. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ELEGY FOR DEGENERATION X | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...MICKEY) SABBATH is a 64-year-old former puppeteer with a prostate gland that belongs in the urology hall of fame. In addition, the randy creation of Philip Roth's new comic novel, Sabbath's Theater (Houghton Mifflin; 451 pages; $24.95), is an Olympic-class misanthrope, an example of homo invectus so addicted to wrath that he rejects suicide on the ground that "everything he hated was here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: AGING DISGRACEFULLY | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

Morris (Mickey) Sabbath is a 64-year-old former puppeteer with a prostate gland that belongs in the Urology Hall of Fame. In addition, the randy creation of Philip Roth's new comic novel (Houghton Mifflin; 451 pages; $24.95), is an Olympic-class misanthrope, an example of homo invectus so addicted to wrath that he rejects suicide on the ground that "everything he hated was here." "Roth still has the power to shock and amaze, although he's lost some of the fresh manic energy of 'Portnoy's Complaint' (1969)," notes TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "Some readers will find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS . . . SABBATH'S THEATER | 9/1/1995 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Louis's scientific and activist legacy is carried on by son Richard and daughter-in-law Meave. Among Rich ard's major finds are further evidence of Homo habilis and, with Alan Walker in 1984, "Turkana Boy," a 1.6 million-year-old skeleton of a strapping, adolescent Homo erectus. As director of the Kenya Wildlife Service from 1989 to 1994, Richard revitalized the country's national parks and deterred poachers, but he made political enemies in the process. As combative and tough as his father, he has survived a kidney transplant and the loss of both legs below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SECRET OF LEAKEY LUCK | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

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