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...second reason the discovery is so important is its age. Ida - her scientific name is Darwinius masillae - dates to about 47 million years ago, when temperatures were warmer than they are today and when mammals underwent a burst of evolutionary diversification. In particular, that's when primates began splitting off into two branches. One became anthropoids, whose descendants are monkeys, apes and humans. The other turned into prosimians - lemurs and their kin. (See pictures of a bonobo eden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ida: Humankind's Earliest Ancestor! (Not Really) | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...like, if I'm alive and work till I'm 80, that's a lot of good years of doing a whole bunch of things that sort of fit into my particular line of work. And I don't even know what that is yet. That may change. This life's path that I'm taking now is going to affect what I can be, who I can be, what I want to be in so many ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with the First Lady | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...move, kept away from their families, and shackled to their work. Rubber boots—“gumboots”—formed part of their uniform. Decades distant, and half a world away, Harvard’s Gumboots Dance Troupe aims to pay tribute to this particular period of struggle in South Africa’s history. Many former members of the group joined because of an affinity to the cultures of southern Africa, but the group has since maintained its creed while diversifying its participation, now attracting members from many different backgrounds.A MISSIONShazrene S. Mohamed...

Author: By Margherita Pignatelli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gumboots Stomp in Sync | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...Gallardo dedicates a large chunk of his writings to describing this detention in minute detail. He unleashes particular scorn on his arresting officer Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni, a "supercop" who shot down or nabbed several top drug lords in the 1980s. Félix Gallardo claimed that he had been a friend of Gonzalez Calderoni who, he said, once gave him a present of macaws, endangered birds. But, Félix Gallardo recalled, when he went to meet the policeman in a Guadalajara restaurant, some of his officers jumped him. "Three of them came at me and knocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autumn of the Capo: The Diary of a Drug Lord | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...talking about is getting money. I was really trying to point out that Arabs have one of the richest cultures in the world, not just from a monetary standpoint but also a spiritual standpoint. In the United States and North America, we're not really identified with a particular faith. We don't really have a culture that anyone can identify with because America is a mixture taken from everyone else's [roots]. My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rapper Busta Rhymes | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

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