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Changes also had to take place in the femur, or thighbone. For example, the femoral neck--the bent portion at the top of the bone--is broader in 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...
...regulations?and rewards?expired 150 years ago with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. These days commoners of any gender can stroll along the old road, parts of which have become quiet backstreets, while other sections remain mountain track. Despite trail markers and helpful shouts from farmers knee-deep in paddies, it is still easy to get lost. Our group of five took a 12-day journey with Walk Japan, whose guides are well-versed in the route's history and the concerns of traditional inn owners, who are often nervous about foreigners not knowing how to behave. For information...
...with all great comedians--which is to say, as with all original thinkers--Rock's insights are beyond tidy labels such as "black," "white," "left," "right," "offensive" or "as harmlessly amusing as Friends." Unlike many of today's allegedly political comics, whose insights go no deeper than poking knee-jerk fun at Bill Clinton's appetites or George W. Bush's intellectual dullness, Rock at his best lays bare society's underlying fault lines. And there's no one he won't take to task: last season his HBO talk show featured a parody instructional video...
...Consider the weeds. The field's gone rank and knee-deep with bedstraw and Queen Anne's lace and vetch and God knows what other dense rural jungle life, patrolled by over flights of stinging deer flies and creased by deer paths. How do the hawks spot field mice and voles through such dense camouflage...
...difficult to say with certainty, but my impression is that it has decreased. There are long-, longstanding patterns of hatred learned at your mother's knee. You can still see it in comments and disputes and riots...