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...existence of H. floresiensis would be nothing less than a revolution in the understanding of human evolution. It's not just that a new species has been claimed to be found, itself an event of seismic proportions. Conventional anthropological wisdom holds that animals, in the absence of big predators, shrink to adapt to life on small, closed habitats like Flores, a phenomenon known as island dwarfism. Humans, however, are thought to have evolved linearly, developing bigger bodies and brains. H. floresiensis, relatively modern yet small?but not a Pygmy, according to its supporters?explodes that theory. "[It'd] go completely...
...hallmark of any commercial film is that it resolves the plot. More and more, as this year's Cannes selections demonstrate, art films shrink from happy endings; sad ones, endings of any certainty. Michael Haneke's Hidden, the critics' current favorite to win the Palme d'Or, refused to unravel its central enigma. So does Broken Flowers, though Don need only ask a question or two of a few people he meets to find what he was ostensibly searching for. The mystery and the answer, Jarmusch says, is in Murray's face, whose contours and conundrums are always worth studying...
...Holding, which controls 20 Minutes in France and Spain. The rise in free papers is one more headache for traditional dailies, already smarting thanks to competition from online and television news providers (Dow Jones & Company, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, last week announced plans to shrink its title's European and Asian editions to tabloid size in October). Daily newspaper circulation fell across much of Europe between 1999 and 2003, dropping 2.3% in France, 6.2% in the Netherlands and 8.1 % in Germany. As many paid-for titles fight for readers, free dailies - typically stuffed with enough short, sharp international...
Nowadays Wynn hopes to shrink gambling to less than 45% of the overall take at his hotels; he says he would remove it from his tranquil new oasis entirely if he could. "I do need the cash flow from the casino to justify the things I do," says Wynn. "I wouldn't want to dumb down my hotel--not at this point in my life. How many guys get to try to build the best hotel in the world...
...amour” the other day, without knowing why. I’d never been particularly fond of the band; in fact, I’ve always had a strong personal distaste for Sting in particular. And yet, there I was in my room, peeling the shrink-wrap off the English lads’ animated faces...