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...Yale paleontologist Elisabeth Vrba believes that their evolutionary success -- and the subsequent thriving of the genus Homo as well -- was tied to climate changes taking place. About 2.5 million to 2.7 million years ago, an ice age sent global temperatures plummeting as much as 20F, prompting the conversion of moist African woodland into much drier, open savanna...
...curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle heads to Newfoundland and fumbles through life as a newspaperman, the author eases up and allows an occasional smile...
...year-old photographer Robert Kincaid and fortyish Iowa farm wife Francesca Johnson meeting and spending four days in forbidden aerobics, then 25 years in noble renunciation, all privacy was gone. Lush-hipped, high-mileage beauties with roses in their teeth and not too much cellulite stared at you moist-eyed from behind self-service gas pumps and supermarket Chardonnay displays. You wondered if you should quickly do some push-ups in the men's room so those cords in your forearms would stand out better. These weathered, yearning women were so vulnerable, so trembling with hope...
...from chocolate chip cookie paradise, though it did possess a certain je ne sais quoi. The bucket-o-cinnamon and "touch-o-nutmeg" eliminate the chocolate taste. This cookie's only redeeming french fry test--chewy on the inside, crispy on the outside. Very rich. This cookie is "moist and plump," "greasy," and "heavy," "a lot of butter." "Just a gosh darn good cookie." Very straightforward, no nonsense. ValueA fair deal at $.35 per ounce. It's bargain, $.22 per ounce. A fair deal. $.33 per ounce. A rip-off. $.50 per ounce. Fair deal. $.34 per ounce. The Verdict...
...cornbread, yes, the cornbread. The first bite set a standard too high for the rest of the meal to follow. The two of us just can't agree on what makes this stuff so damn special; we can't even agree on whether it is heavy or light, moist or dry, crumbly or chewy. Perhaps it is simply an individual, spiritual experience. You have...