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...before I get my picture posted in the bathroom of one of Harvard's oldest performing organizations (as my colleague Sean Wissman seems to have done prior to yesterday's Words of Wissman column), I'd like to congratulate the band on a first-rate half-time show and a good quality performance, notewise, on Saturday...
...saying "the more the merrier" is one of the oldest cliches in the English language...
...objective is keep lighting and equipment understated and not "take away from the feeling of one of the oldest halls at Harvard," Herrholz said...
...Ethiopia under the searing midday sun, peering carefully around him for ancient bones. Then he saw it: the telltale gleam of a fossil tooth partially exposed on the rocky ground. "I knew immediately that it was a hominid tooth," says the University of Tokyo scientist, "and one of the oldest ever found...
...report in the current , Nature that the archaic molar, along with other fossils they found in the area on expeditions in 1992 and 1993, belong to a previously unknown species. This diminutive, humanlike creature walked the earth some 4.4 million years ago -- half a million years earlier than the oldest human ancestors ever identified. That stretches our family tree back almost to the era when humans and apes branched off from a single ancestor. In fact, says University of Liverpool paleontologist Bernard Wood, whose commentary on the find also appears in Nature: "It looks to me like this is either...