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Last week Mary Leakey announced fresh findings that set man's genesis even deeper in the distant past. The evidence comes not from Olduvai but from Laetolil. Returning there after her husband's death in 1972, on a hunch "we didn't look hard enough," she began uncovering jawbones and teeth that seemed clearly human; that is, they belonged to the genus Homo (or true man), rather than to man-apes (like Australopithecus, who once was thought to be the forerunner of man but is now regarded as a possible evolutionary dead end). One clue...
With Acorn and Bullard, Ford didn't want to mess with a good thing, as the combo produced much of last year's offense. And he was right on that hunch too, as Acorn scored the only goal in the first half, and Bullard made it 2-0 midway through the second...
CORNELL--COLGATE: A lot depends on the Big Red running attack, and I don't know if Don Fanelli is back. On the strength of a hunch and a general trend in this series: Cornell 28, Colgate...
...trucks, photocopying machines. Says Frink in Hong Kong: "We have part of a rice mill. It may be an entire rice mill-I won't know until I get into the boxes. The same thing with an edible oil mill. There is a big shipment of ladles. Our hunch is that they are ladles for pouring glass...
...binationalism, I think some variant of it is unquestionably preferable to the current ethnocentric and chauvinistic exclusivism which informs the fundamental character of the Israeli state today. And I am not bothered on bit by the failure of the Palestinian groups to endorse binationalism. My hunch is, however, that in time and with the right kind of U.S. military and economic presence in the Middle East (a presence quite different from the tendentious design Prof. Walzer has in mind) the Palestinian leadership will more readily recognize the equity of a binationalist solution than the Israeli leadership. Martin Kilson