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...discovery, which Leakey and Walker have named Australopithecus anamensis (anam is the Turkana word for lake), is yet another reason why paleontologists are reconsidering some of their ideas about why the earliest humans stood up. According to one theory, as a change in climate transformed Africa's moist forests into drier grasslands, evolution favored hom inids that could stand upright in order to spot predators lurking in the tall grasses. Other researchers argue that an upright posture lessened the heat the animals absorbed from the fierce tropical sun. Still others believe bipedalism freed the hands for carrying food or children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ON ITS OWN TWO FEET | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

Aging skin. HRT seems to help preserve skin elasticity, much as Wilson boasted. It helps maintain the collagen that keeps skin looking plumped up and moist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ESTROGEN DILEMMA | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

...Chick-fil-A is a moist and flavorful grilled chicken product that is marinated for 24 hours," Michael P. Berry, director of Harvard Dining Services, said in an interview last week...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Chick-fil-A Will Occupy Science Center Cafeteria | 6/6/1995 | See Source »

Here at FM, eyes grow moist upon recalling that fateful weekend in April of years past, when we ourselves first tasted the sweet fruit of the veritas vine. Or was it the wine made from the fermented fruit? Ah, yes, the joys of pre-frosh weekend. We recall the Scarlet Folders (so shameful!, the endless self-introductions, the relentless lines at the Union, the roving packs of frustrated party-seekers, the foamy keg in Matthews, the Greys party's recycling bin filled with vodka and Kool-Aid...and that's all we remember...

Author: By Elg & Yhy, | Title: From the editors | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...seat and, according to a witness quoted anonymously in the Tokyo papers, almost immediately began fiddling with a foot-long rectangular object wrapped in newspapers. At the next stop he set the package on the floor and strode briskly from the train. By then, says a witness, a moist spot had appeared on the wrapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN'S PROPHET OF POISON: Shoko Asahara | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

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