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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Olduvai Gorge, the famous Great Rift Valley site in Tanzania where the Leakeys did much of their digging, Mary worked her fossil-hunting magic again 10 years later. While Louis lay feverish in his tent, she burst in, shouting "I've got him! I've got him--our man!" The find, consisting of two bulges of brown fossilized molars protruding from a slope, turned out to be the skull of a 1.75 million-year-old human ancestor the Leakeys called Zinjanthropus ("Man from East Africa"). The discovery, notes paleoanthropologist F. Clark Howell of the University of California, Berkeley, marked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARY NICOL LEAKEY: 1913-1996: FIRST LADY OF FOSSILS | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...Snowden (19 points, 12 rebounds) that kept Harvard close at all. His three lay-ins off the glass were the Crimson's only points over the first 7:53 of the second half, and over that period Holy Cross turned a 26-23 Harvard halftime lead into a tie game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crusaders Cross Up Men's Basketball | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...many lay people would have recognized the name, since relatively few ordinary citizens read the publications of the funeral industry--with their ads for Eterna-Cribs, Frigid Fluid body bags, Velvetone Arterial solution and Hydrol Tissue Builder--in which Loewen and its competitors had long been subjects of debate. O'Keefe, however, knew Loewen and knew full well it was no mere partner. "That was a lie and a subterfuge," he says. When Loewen went on to buy another nearby funeral home and in the process intruded on a long-standing contract between that home and O'Keefe, O'Keefe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FIGHT TO THE DEATH | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

Tony Toni Tone's memorable and timeless melodies are also reminiscent of the legendary soul acts. Songs such as "It Never Rains (In Southern California)," "Anniversary" and "(Lay Your Head On My) Pillow" are some of the few truly classic slow jams of the 1990s. Not only are their melodies enduring--the band's lyrics are also finely crafted. They are often seductive but never raunchy, sweet through not saccharine, and are always on the right side of the fine line separating light-hearted from vacuous. Furthermore, the band is known primarily for the quality of its music...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Tony Toni Tone Brings Back Unprocessed Spirit of Soul | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

With 8:56 remaining in the first half, last season's Ivy League Player of the Year took a pass from junior guard Alison Seanor and made a lay-up to break the barrier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETE of the WEEK | 12/5/1996 | See Source »

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