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Travelers, keep your lotion. The TSA has eased its ban on liquids in carry-on luggage. No longer banned: sample-size toiletries (that's 3 oz. or less)--too small, officials say, for major explosives...
...satisfying its partners and staying ahead of its rivals, says Terry, is managing its explosive employee growth rate. There are now 9,000 Googlers, which certainly adds to the Googleplexity. "When it seems like they're bringing in more outsiders than they have insiders every year and doubling the size of the company, it's hard to maintain the corporate culture that made them successful," says Terry...
...remodels garages using goods he manufacturers and distributes. Loberg was a local entity until 2003, when he opened his first franchise in Hilton Head, S.C. Sniffing a market, entrepreneurs around the U.S. and Canada bought the franchises, paying $35,000 to more than $125,000, depending on the market size. Adding more franchises--now totaling 81 in the U.S. and Canada--helped PremierGarage's revenues soar to $16.2 million in 2005; the firm currently employs 82 people. Loberg, whose company charges between $5,000 and $8,000 on average for its projects, expects sales of $28 million...
...paleontologists have accumulated more and more fossils, they have compiled data on a long list of anatomical features, including body shape, bipedalism, brain size, the shape of the skull and face, the size of canine teeth, and opposable thumbs. Using comparative analyses of these attributes, along with dating that shows when various features appeared or vanished, they have constructed increasingly elaborate family trees that show the relationships between apes, ancient hominids and us. Along the way they learned, among other things, that Darwin, even with next to no actual data, was close to being right in his intuition that apes...
...traits that really distance us from other organisms," says Wisconsin's Carroll, "such as susceptibility to diseases, big brains, speech, walking upright, opposable thumbs. Based on the biology of other organisms, we have to believe that those are very complex traits. The development of form, the increase in brain size, took place over a long period of time, maybe 50,000 generations. It's a pretty complicated genetic recipe...