Word: human
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...cover photograph was striking, but the lens and/or perspective distorted the head of Homo habilis. I should not wish readers to think in terms of huge-headed ancestors. Indeed, the cranial size was smaller than today's average human...
...lost, no matter how you look at it. Congress has been intimidated by the emotional, physical presence of the right-to-lifers." Adds Robert Webber, western regional director of Planned Parenthood: "The right-to-lifers are single-issue individuals. They don't care how a politician stands on human rights or aid to education. They vote on what he or she says about abortion." One certain result: abortion will be a Main Street issue during next year's congressional campaigns...
Gays are asserting, ever more strongly, that "Gay Right are Human Rights." Ten per cent of the population can not be silenced or kept down any longer. It is encouraging to see a piece like this in the Crimson. --Kevin M. Cathcart
There has been some striking speculation that whales may have a language. Cetaceans have a highly developed sense of hearing that evolved--as did echolocution--to compensate for an inability to see underwater. The noises they make sound like clicks and whistles and meaningless barks to the human ear. However, some observers have noticed that whales put these sounds together in startling ways. Cummings and Philippi, who worked on the Navy's marine mammal research program, found that in the right whale, "Low frequency sounds occurred in similar stanzas lasting 11 to 14 minutes...These phonetic components...were so orderly...
...forth from the people of Eagle, to McPhee's solo trek one night across the grizzly-infested tundra to an Indian village adjacent to Eagle. McPhee has at times been criticized for being too organized, too refined, and the freedom he allows himself here is particularly impressive, is warm, human journalism and McPhee's style is an acknowledgement that Alaska cannot be organized into tidy, easily digested sections...