Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skeleton discovered in Portugal last December gives new life to the old idea. Co-discoverer Joao Zilhao, director of the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology, and consultant Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., claim that the 24,500-year-old remains of a four-year-old child show a mix of human and Neanderthal features. The boy could simply be the love child from a single prehistoric one-night stand--except that the last true Neanderthals had disappeared from the area at least 3,000 years earlier. Plenty of experts are unwilling to be swayed by romance, however...
...able to unseat Milosevic." Draskovic?s main rival, Zoran Djindjic of the Alliance for Change, is calling for a transitional government of experts that would then hold elections in a year or so. Draskovic (whose Serbian Renewal party still commands the most support in the opposition) angrily dismissed the idea as untenable and "dust in the eyes of the people." Draskovic only wants this his way ? new elections immediately, that Djindjic?s party isn?t ready for yet. Anastasijevic doesn?t see that as helpful. "If there are new elections while Milosevic still controls the media, Milosevic will...
...develop mania, an uncontrolled frenzy of emotion and activity. Who knows what else may turn up if millions of people start using it? Maybe that's one reason SAMe is still a prescription drug in Europe. So, if you do decide to try it, it's not a bad idea to let your doctor know so that he or she can watch for anything unusual...
...mayor from 1977-81, Springer spent a night in jail to illustrate the awful conditions in the local prisons and fought to bring rock concerts to the conservative city. Which was a great idea except for that 1979 Who concert that turned into a stampede...
...your mental agility with a series of fun, silly games. Begin by answering a few odd questions: Could a trout be mayor? Would you read a book called, 10 Steps to Health, Wealth and Happiness? If you answered no to both, you may not be very open to new ideas, scolds the CD-ROM's sarcastic, British-accented narrator. To fix that, he takes you through a series of playful exercises to make you more experimental, proactive, empowered...You get the idea. In one exercise, you're asked how a cucumber might bring world peace. Ridiculous? Well, "sometimes you have...