Word: incisors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looks 50, and his gaunt face carries discolored scars from the falls and fights of three years on the streets. An upper incisor is missing, and his lower teeth jut outward against his lower lip, giving the impression that he can't close his mouth. His baggy pants are about five inches too long and when he walks, their frayed ends drag on the ground. "You know something?" he asks, holding up the bottle. "I wasn't stuck to this stuff until the cold got to me. Now I'll freeze without it. I could go to Florida or someplace...
Most anthropological theory is based upon fragmentary evidence: a femur here, an incisor there. But what Johanson found needed no jigsaw reconstruction. The collection of dozens of bones was literally the skeleton in Homo sapiens' closet. Nicknamed Lucy (because the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was playing on a tape machine in the expedition's camp), the original owner of the bones was not the most prepossessing of creatures. She stood about 3½ ft. tall and had a head the size of a softball. But despite her size, Lucy turned...
...power mad, detached and dull - it is first of all an impertinent accusation to level at those (and there are more all the time) who live in Washington wholly removed from the power circles. There are plenty of D.C, dentists whose closest contact with the Government is the left incisor of a Senator's niece. But even for those at the heart of the heart of the Government, that element of detachment from one's fellows is neither surprising nor condemnable. Since they are tied to one center, it would be difficult to also be tied to each...