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Evan W. Thomas ’73, Murrow visiting professor of the practice of press and public policy and Newsweek’s assistant managing editor, arrived on campus the fall following the April takeover of University Hall. While the College shut down briefly after the Kent State shooting, Thomas says that not everyone took to protesting the politics of the time...
...unlimited breadsticks and salad. In case you should ever forget the ethnicity of the characters, the soundtrack is packed with Frank Sinatra tunes, "That's Amore" and "Mambo Italiano," and there's actually a character with the surname Buttafucco (sic). That said, this series, about Lydia DeLucca (Heather Paige Kent), a 32-year-old New Jersey woman who ditches her troglodyte fianc? to go back to college, is cleverly directed and makes a few fresh observations. The DeLucca family Sunday-dinner ritual - the meal is wolfed down, to the ticking of an egg timer, during halftime of the Giants game...
...suggest that lack of MYH16 made it possible for our ancestors to evolve smaller jaw muscles some 2 million years ago. That loss in muscle strength, they say, allowed the braincase and brain to grow larger. It's a controversial claim, one disputed by anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University. "Brains don't expand because they were permitted to do so," he says. "They expand because they were selected"--because they conferred extra reproductive success on their owners, perhaps by allowing them to hunt more effectively than the competition...
Precisely how useful this information will be is hard toassess. Indeed, a few experts are dismissive of the whole project. "I'm not sure what Neanderthals will tell us," says Kent State's Lovejoy. "They're real late [in terms of human evolution]. And they represent, at best, a little environmental isolate in Europe. I can't imagine we're going to learn much about human evolution by studying them." Lovejoy is even more dismissive about claims that ancestors of chimps and humans interbred, arguing that using mutation rates in the genome to time evolutionary changes is extraordinarily imprecise...
...compared to summer 2005’s first week. “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” drew in almost $4 billion, despite its exasperating length and tiresome nonstop action sequences. Meanwhile, “Superman Returns” lured the Clark Kent-obsessed out of their mother’s basements while “The Devil Wears Prada” attracted a solid audience and featured the impressive acting chops of Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. That still leaves “Snakes on a Plane...