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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While these ancient footprints shed fresh light on our nearer ancestors, Anthropologist Elwyn Simons, director of Duke University's primate center, revealed new findings on more distant kin. Most scientists agree that both man and ape descended from a common ancestor, a beast called Dryopithecus (meaning tree ape), which appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laskey's Find | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

The inevitable then happens: a literate and appreciably more independent Gavino leaves the army and returns to Sardinia to pursue his studies at the local university, much to his father's dismay. At first, Gavino agrees to help out with the family farm while he attends college, but when the...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: The Sum of the Parts... | 3/4/1978 | See Source »

"It's exactly the same thing," he says. "With the blues, the progression is a vehicle around which you tell a story, to convey a feeling using the guitar riffs and words--tell exactly what the meaning of the so. And it's exactly the same with punk. It's...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Even Punks Sing the Blues | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

Regrettably, many people may read the recruitment article as a plea for minority favoritism. It struck me, however, that the authors were asking for equity, and for a far more rigorous admissions process--not favoritism. They want an accurate assessment of the meaning, or lack of meaning, of standardized test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minority Recruiting | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

Haldeman's other previously unreported story tells of a new Soviet threat in Cuba. He reports that Kissinger rushed into his office in September 1970 with pictures of soccer fields being built at Cienfuegos. "Those soccer fields could mean war, Bob," an excited Kissinger is supposed to have said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Much Ado About Haldeman | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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