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What commends these movies to Dole is their marketplace success -- he is a Republican, after all. If he had actually seen them (his staff admits he hadn't), he might be less pleased. For this is what they really say: that women need to be kept in their place, preferably...
According to former fbi bomb expert James Ronay, who worked on the case for years, the Unabomber's extraordinary attention to detail points to an obsessive personality. Says Ronay: "If the bomber were only interested in producing a bomb that worked efficiently, he could do it a lot more easily...
But the image was wrong. In 1957 American and British researchers re- examined the skeleton that Boule had studied and concluded that Neanderthals stood upright; the stooped posture of Boule's specimen was attributable to arthritis. Also the feet were not prehensile, nor was the | spine curved. They further noted...
Other scientists say Neanderthal genes survive today. Milford Wolpoff, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, points to Neanderthal features in early Europeans as evidence that considerable interbreeding took place between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, who coexisted for tens of thousands of years in some regions.
Ofer Bar-Yosef, a Harvard University anthropologist, believes the intermingling occurred when the advance of Ice Age glaciers forced Neanderthals to move south into Homo sapiens' regions and when retreating glaciers allowed early Homo sapiens to follow Neanderthals back into northern climes. Still others, citing anatomical changes in the most...