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...Otherside one recent Friday night: the restaurant’s usual throng burst into a roar when two of the scruffiest, hipster-iest men in the establishment began flinging small objects off a balcony into the crowd below. The objects, it turned out, were decks of cards and miniature palm-sized helmets—just large enough for a hipster to keep a finger or two safe while zooming around Boston on a bike without breaks...
...politically. That's his job as a conservative talk-show host, and he does it really well - well enough to earn the dough needed to own a piece of an NFL franchise. The fact that he is a lawbreaking former drug addict whom the cops discovered copping OxyContin in Palm Beach after years of calling for illegal drug users to go to jail might not boost his candidacy for the owners club. (It could qualify him to play in the NFL, though, which leads the sporting world in felonies...
...things on the ground and carrying things while walking on two legs. Her wrist, hand and shoulder bones show that she wasn't a knuckle walker and didn't spend much time hanging or swinging ape-style in trees. Rather, she moved along branches using a primitive method of palm-walking typical of extinct apes. "[Ardi is] a lovely Darwinian creature," says Penn State paleoanthropologist Alan Walker, who was not involved in the discovery. "It has features that are intermediate between the last common ancestor and australopithecines...
...baboons, elephants, spiral-horned antelopes and hyenas roamed the terrain. Shrews, hares, porcupines and small carnivores scuttled in the underbrush. There were an assortment of bats and at least 29 species of birds, including peacocks, doves, lovebirds, swifts and owls. Buried in the Ethiopian sediments were hackberry seeds, fossilized palm wood and traces of pollen from fig trees, whose fruit the omnivorous Ar. ramidus undoubtedly...
...size, Montenegro has extraordinary scenery and numerous alternatives for adventurers should the snow fail - from white-water rafting to snowmobiling and mountain-biking. Alternatively you could head to the gorgeous coast to enjoy fabulous resorts like the Avala in Budva, where you can eat fresh branzino fish under swaying palm trees a mere two hours' drive from the mountains. Who needs Colorado...