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...Eckhardt attended a scientific meeting in which he took off his shirt and had his wife measure his chest. "We were able to establish to the satisfaction of the audience of 300 people that I was in fact thicker than two short planks," he says. Brown also accused Teuku Jacob, the lead author of the PNAS paper and one of Indonesia's most respected anthropologists, of damaging the fossils while they were in his possession for several months last year; and Morwood claims Jacob used his influence with the Indonesian government to block further excavations at the site. Jacob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Riddle of the Hobbit | 8/28/2006 | See Source »

...this sounds like he-said, she-said for the paleoanthropological crowd, you're not far off. The two sides quickly descend from debating the finer points of human fossils to slagging off on each other's ethics. Brown has accused Teuku Jacob - the lead author of the PNAS paper and one of Indonesia's most venerable anthropologists - of removing the fossils from their legal depository and damaging them while attempting to make a copy. Jacob has denied the charges in the past, and Thorne takes umbrage at the accusations. "This is a very senior academic," he says of Jacob. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hobbit Wars Heat Up | 8/22/2006 | See Source »

...Jewish so that he can protest that it's not what he was getting at and then move on to why I booked an aisle seat. Once, when I was running late, I said that my son was named Yaakov, the Hebrew version of his name, Jacob, and I found myself whisked through in no time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Toughest Airline Security of All | 8/10/2006 | See Source »

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS SARA GRUEN JACOB JANKOWSKI has never had fantasies about joining the circus. But when his parents die suddenly, he freaks out, drops out of vet school, hops a freight train and winds up tending to the menagerie of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a third-rate Depression-era traveling circus. What goes on under the big top is nothing compared with the show backstage. In a sawdust-and-tinsel novel reminiscent of Robertson Davies, Jacob nurses giraffes, bunks with a surly dwarf, falls in love with a sexy horsewoman, gets life lessons from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Guilt-Free Pleasures to Read at the Beach | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...system is already prevalent in many states and is running successfully. It is like the homeopathic principle of treating similar with similar: substances that can cause symptoms can, as a remedy, also reverse them. The quota system is aimed at eradicating caste differences in due course. A. Jacob Sahayam Kerala, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

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