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Otherwise, it’s been pretty smooth sailing. I’m a general assignment reporter, writing just under four stories a week. Many of them have been soft stories, so I’ve tried to sharpen my writing and work on my ability to describe people and situations in detail. I think I’m getting better, though it’s still a story-by-story debate with my editors, who often want to chop my longer sentences in two—sentences I use to try and tell stories more fluidly...
...describe ourselves and our non-ape ancestors. They also differ in shape from the teeth of all known fossil and modern apes. Even the way in which the teeth had been worn down was telling. Explains Haile-Selassie's thesis adviser, Berkeley paleontologist Tim White: "Apes all sharpen their upper canines as they chew. Hominids don't." The new creature's back teeth are larger than a chimp's too, while the front teeth are narrower, suggesting that its diet included a variety of fibrous foods, rather than the fruits and soft leaves that chimps prefer...
...Losers ROGER CLINTON Ex-First Bro questioned for $50,000 payment from crime boss Rosario Gambino's family. Wakes up with horse's ass in his bed PAULA POUNDSTONE Comedy Store hecklers sharpen your knives: stand-up comedian and foster parent is arrested for lewd acts with a teen girl KHALID DURAN Author goes into hiding after Jordanian cleric issues death edict for book. As rookie on the Rushdie circuit, he'll make the beer runs...
...together they constitute the 500-pound gorillas of world trade. That has meant that ongoing trade spats over issues ranging from bananas to airplane engines have at times bedeviled global trade talks such as those at the World Trade Organization. And the slowdown of the U.S. economy will sharpen the focus on trade issues in Washington's relations with Europe over the next few years...
...clinicians are quick to point out, cause and effect are notoriously difficult to tease out of population studies like this one, and exactly what the emotion-Alzheimer's link means has yet to be established. But even hard-nosed lab scientists admit that the Nun Study has helped sharpen the focus of their research. The study has impressed the National Institutes of Health enough that it has provided $5 million in funding over the past decade and a half. "It is," says Dr. Richard Suzman, director of the National Institute on Aging, "a very innovative, pioneering study...