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...difference between Detroit and Boston--where yearly playoff drives always seem more exhilarating and pure--are the sheer numbers. In the last decade Boston's four major teams have snagged 25 playoff spots. Detroiters, in the same time, have enjoyed a meager six, with no team advancing in post-season play past the second round...
...walk upright before they developed large brains. Though it could walk and probably even run on its hind legs, the Afar creature's cranial capacity was pitifully small, totaling no more than about 400 cc, barely a fourth of the size of the brain of Homo sapiens. The meager skeleton shows no noticeable anatomical variations from the remains of another ancestor, the famed 3.6 million-year-old "Lucy," who has been regarded until now as man's oldest direct kin. Such evolutionary stability over some 400,000 years, argues Anthropologist Timothy White, Clark's Berkeley colleague, must...
Although the NCAA will now foot part of the bill when Harvard sends its female athletes to post-season competitions (something the AIAW's meager budget never permitted) some administrators are wary of NCAA involvement in women's athletics...
...student government, cautions against drawing comparisons with other schools, saying Harvard's unique House system provides students with an incomparable structure of less centralized leaders and extracurricular lives. And in fact at Yale, usually considered the campus most similar to Harvard's, the College Council handles a meager budget with the $32 mandatory activities fee going directly to a student's residential college. Says senior Jeffrey Porzan, the council's former chairman: "The residential colleges are sacred cow. If you have anything that would take away from the dignity or prestige of them, they'd get vetoed...
Most Americans would probably agree with the INS's premise that illegal workers should not be stealing jobs from U.S. citizens. But last week's sweeping police action left a sour taste, especially in view of its meager returns. The arrest of a few thousand people seemed a curious way to reduce the number of unemployed (10 million) or illegal aliens (some 3 million). - By Janice Castro. Reported by David S. Jackson/Washington and Alessandra Stanley /Los Angeles, with other bureaus...