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Professor of Astronomy and the History of Science Owen J. Gingerich was even more doubtful. "Our chances of ever talking to extraterrestrial life are as good as ever talking to blue-green algae," Gingerich said...
...what they've found (the harder part). The earliest hint that his team had discovered an especially ancient human ancestor was a single knee joint plucked from the African dirt. It was old -- carefully dated volcanic ash in nearby rocks proved that. But it took laborious work by anatomist Owen Lovejoy to prove the knee belonged to a biped -- and thus, not entirely apelike -- primate. Lucy turned up nearby a year later, but it took weeks to piece her jumbled bones into a partial skeleton and years before anthropologists could agree on her place in human evolution...
...these feints, advances and retreats on the ground are supposed to lead to a diplomatic settlement. The only peace plan under discussion -- the U.N.-backed Owen-Stoltenberg proposal -- is one that will let the Serbs keep what they have captured and cut Bosnia into three ethnic pieces. The Muslim- led government rejects the plan because it rewards the Serb aggressor. The European allies believe the U.S. has agreed to push the Bosnians into accepting the Owen-Stoltenberg map. Says a Serb captain: "It depends on the will of the international community to be as hard on the Muslims...
Anchorage native Owen S. Wozniak '97 and his family are also preparing for the Russian invasion. "We're asking immigrants from Afghanistan how to best protest yourself from Russian tanks and increasing the size of our dog sled team so we can out run the Russians," he says...
...American soldier is no redder than that of a Somalian peasant. If one soldier dies for every hundred Serbs forced to put down their weapons, the United States will have achieved a remarkable success while putting to shame the isolationist European powers personified by Great Britain's ineffective Lord Owen...