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...been found at two sites in northern Spain's Atapuerca mountains. One, known as Gran Dolina, has yielded 800,000-year-old hominids that Spanish researchers believe are a new species, perhaps the most recent common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals. Named Homo antecessor (Latin for explorer or pioneer), they had a primitive jaw and prominent brow ridges but a projecting face, sunken cheekbones and tooth development similar to that of modern humans...
...novelist Brooks Hansen has some serious fun imagining the case of Sylvie Blum, a.k.a. Nina, the pubescent bringer of confusion and disarray into the physician's otherwise detached and antiseptic existence. As a hypnotherapist, Perlman is a hands-off healer. As a closet onanist, he is a hands-on pioneer of safe...
DIED. DR. C. WALTON LILLEHEI, 80, surgical pioneer; of cancer; in St. Paul, Minn. Lillehei performed the first successful open-heart surgery, on a five-year-old girl, in 1952. He was instrumental in developing the wearable pacemaker and artificial heart valves...
...allure. The primary tourist attractions continue to be game parks and an abundance of spectacular scenery, which draw at least one-third of all vacationing visitors. The menu is being broadened to highlight South Africa's unique heritage of European and African settlement, tribal and colonial wars, pioneer voortrekkers and legendary explorers--and its rich cultural...
Relief officials say Kosovars in the refugee camps will probably dispatch "pioneer groups" to survey the damage wrought by the war. It is not an encouraging picture. At least half the houses in Kosovo have been razed. There are no viable livestock or crops. Simply feeding the internally displaced Kosovars will require shipments of 1,000 tons of food daily. Because Serbian authorities destroyed most of the ethnic Albanians' personal records, KFOR and the U.N.'s civilian administrators will face the nightmarish task of sorting out those who have legal claims to land and property. The U.S. hopes to organize...