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...reason minorities are stopped more often than whites, but those concerns don't explain--at least not entirely--why they are searched more often. Cops search cars for many reasons besides traffic safety--usually because the officers smell or see something in the car that looks suspicious, like a joint or a gun. The disparate search figures are stunning. In San Diego, which has released a study of its vehicle stops for the year 2000, both blacks and Hispanics who were stopped by police had a 10% chance of being searched, and whites had only a 3% chance. Contraband...
...find on Khao San Road in Bangkok or in Ko Samui?and its appearance along with a few Internet caf?s means Vang Viang is in the initial throes of a tourism boom. Indeed, the first video bar has opened down the street. Martin Dillon hasn't even named his joint yet. But as the twentysomething Englishman sits on a brown sofa, smoking a gigantic spliff while a pirated VCD of 3,000 Miles to Graceland blares in the background, he talks about how Laos is at an inflection point. "It could become this really cool place, or it could just...
...Fitz, who is fresh from going to see the dragon, sits in the back of Dillon's restaurant, rolling a joint. There's a full-moon party in 10 days down in Ko Pha-Ngan, Thailand, three days by bus, train and boat from here. He swears he's going to be there. He needs a fresh visa for Laos anyway. What about the opium? Can he go that long without seeing the dragon...
...crucial changes, according to Lovejoy, were those in the spine. The distance between chest and pelvis is longer in humans than in apes, allowing the lower spine to curve, which locates the upper body over the pelvis for balance. The pelvis grew broader, meanwhile, and humans developed a hip joint and associated muscles that stabilize the pelvis. Explains Lovejoy: "That's why a chimp sways from side to side as it walks upright and humans...
...humans than it is in apes, which improves balance. The human knee is specialized for walking upright too: to compensate for the thighbone's being at an angle, there's a lump, or groove, at the end of the femur that prevents the patella from sliding off the joint. "A chimp doesn't have this groove because there is no angulation between the hip and the knee," Lovejoy says. "This change says you're a biped...