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...other, more fragmentary skulls both large and small, convince Kimbel and his colleagues that afarensis was indeed a single species, as they had believed all along. The arm bones, too, appear to bolster this idea. According to Leslie Aiello, an anthropologist at University College London, they have exactly the robust, curving form you would expect from a tree climber. The two sexes didn't have different kinds of skills, she says, but were both "a mosaic, bipedal from the waist down and arboreal from the waist...
Americans have had lots of good, sensible reasons for doing this. The economy finally seems robust, growing a vigorous 7% in the fourth quarter of last year. Corporations ranging from Sears to the papermaker Pentair, Inc. had + record profits last year. Low interest rates have made bank accounts less attractive, and real estate is no longer for those looking to get rich quick. Even after last week's turbulent retreat, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 3636, 53.7% higher than in October...
...government announced that the country's gross domestic product surged ahead at a robust 7.5% annual rate in the final quarter of 1993. This marks the economy's strongest performance in nearly a decade. Commerce Department officials attributed the good news to a jump in U.S. exports, which rose by $2 billion in December. In other good news, the nation's unemployment rate dropped a surprising two-tenths of a percent in February, in spite of frigid weather in the Midwest and Northeast...
...monopoly on encryption technology. As computers -- the engines of modern cryptography -- have proliferated, so have ever more powerful encryption algorithms. Telephones that offered nearly airtight privacy protection began to appear on the market, and in January U.S. computermakers said they were ready to adopt a new encryption standard so robust that even the NSA couldn't crack...
Panel members expected the quickening recovery to create jobs at an average rate of 170,000 a month in 1994, up from 160,000 last year. But Freedman, a consultant to employers, predicted that the job-growth rate would climb to a more robust 200,000 a month. As in 1993, much of the hiring will probably involve part-time positions and relatively low-wage, service-sector jobs like restaurant work. That should be enough to cut the unemployment rate, which stood at 6.4% in November, to 5.9% by the end of the year...