Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Taylor won the 100-meter high hurdles and the 400 hurdles, the latter in a meet record of 59.66 seconds. She ran fast without jumping, too, collecting a second in the 100-meter, running the second leg of the first-place 4x400 and running the second leg on the third-place 4x100 team. The 4x400 relay established another meet record, with a time...
...found a partial skull of a new species of human ancestor from 2.5 million years ago, right in the middle of the gap. They also discovered evidence that someone was using tools to butcher animals in the same location at approximately the same time. And they found fossil arm, leg and foot bones that will provide experts with important clues about how human ancestors were built in those days. Exclaims anatomist Alan Walker of Pennsylvania State University: "This is really exciting...
...leg and foot bones were discovered in the same geological layer but some 900 ft. away from the skull and teeth. Without physical proximity to link the two finds, and without teeth for comparison, the paleontologists can't be sure that they are from the same species. But like the skull, these fossils show a mix of primitive and advanced traits. Australopithecus afarensis, which lived between 3.6 million and 2.9 million years ago, had forearms that were long compared with its legs, while Homo erectus, which appeared about 1.7 million years ago, had shortened forearms and longer legs, more like...
...signed in blood. As Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris prowled the school with their guns and bombs, this is what the children did: a boy draped himself over his sister and her friend, so that he would be the one shot. A boy with 10 bullet wounds in his leg picked up an explosive that landed by him and hurled it away from the other wounded kids. Others didn't want to leave their dying teacher when the SWAT team finally came: Can't we carry him out on a folded-up table? A girl was asked by the gunman...
...just seem to keep getting faster and faster," Hanson said. "Right now, it's getting to be more and more about fine-tuning. I run the starting leg, and it's important to have a good start and good exchanges...