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...White hints that his team has already discovered hominid fossils that are more than 5 million years old, though he refuses to elaborate before detailed studies are completed. But Leakey and Walker readily acknowledge that they are studying two 5.5 million-year-old hominid teeth and a similarly ancient jaw fragment with an embedded tooth from a site in northern Kenya. "They look like australopithecines with lots of primitive features," Walker says, but there isn't enough evidence from these fossils alone to claim a new species...
Patrick, 32 and single, doesn't really look the part of a Kennedy on the trail. Other Kennedys have the Mount Rushmore jaw and viscous hair, but Patrick's puffy, soft features aren't primed for statuemaking. Growing up in Virginia denied him the trademark Massachusetts accent, and asthma in childhood kept him from the scrimmage line in those famous tests of the family vigor. He likes to joke that when he shows up for an event billed with the family name, he introduces himself and people ask, "Where's the Kennedy?" But the third youngest member of Congress...
...wounded. Mary Farnan, who has been smoking since age 11, has lung cancer that has spread to her brain. Frank Amodeo's throat cancer forces him to eat through a hole in his stomach. Loren Lowery, a Vietnam veteran, has had part of his tongue cut out and his jaw replaced twice. Not the kind of opponents you'd want to challenge in front of a jury...
...silent-film historian Kevin Brownlow, joins a superb biography, Eileen Whitfield's Mary Pickford: The Woman Who Made the Movies (University Press of Kentucky; 416 pages; $25), in bringing the actress alive on the page. Many of the Brownlow book's photos--evocations of an era that are jaw-droppingly gorgeous in their clarity and power--are now on display at the Motion Picture Academy in Hollywood. A documentary, narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, is headed for video. Like one of her scruffy heroines who find love at the final fadeout, Pickford is back in movie-star style...
They were not, though, heroes of the old epic kind, dedicated to colossal purposes, tight of jaw and stiff of upper lip. That was George Mallory, who said most famously in 1924 that he was climbing Mount Everest "because it is there." But if he ever reached the summit, he never lived to tell the tale. Hillary and Tenzing were two cheerful and courageous fellows doing what they liked doing, and did, best, and they made an oddly assorted pair. Hillary was tall, lanky, big-boned and long-faced, and he moved with an incongruous grace, rather like a giraffe...