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...bones unearthed at Teotihuacan are plenty ancient, but there's old and then there's old--and a find announced by South African scientists last week makes A.D. 150 seem like yesterday. Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand reported that they've discovered the skeleton of a human ancestor that could be as much as 3.5 million years...
That's even older than the celebrated Lucy, and comes from a time when humans still had many apelike characteristics. Best of all, this skeleton is almost complete; it even comes with a skull. There is no need to mix and match different specimens to guess what the entire creature looked like (Lucy, for example, was only 40% complete). Once the skeleton is fully excavated in a year or so, experts should be able to pin down the relative sizes of different body parts and see just which of the creature's features were apelike and which were human...
...mystery to this day. But thanks to a discovery made this fall by an international research team, that mystery may finally be starting to unravel. In mid-October, archaeologists stumbled across a burial chamber deep inside Teotihuacan's massive Pyramid of the Moon. Inside they found a skeleton and more than 150 artifacts probably dating to about A.D. 150. It is, exults anthropologist Michael Spence of the University of Western Ontario, "a fantastic find...
Sullivan, then a senior editor for The New Republic, girded himself for the battle of--and for--his life. But for three years, in a metamorphosis that transformed his healthy, young body into a skeleton too sick to get out of bed, Sullivan was slowly losing the battle. In 1996, just when it seemed that he was running out of defenses in the fight against AIDS, Sullivan acquired a powerful new arsenal: a cocktail of drugs called protease inhibitors. All of a sudden, Sullivan--and thousands of other AIDS sufferers--had a reprieve on what seemed like an inflexible death...
...love with his music in the first place. Springsteen found--and still finds--poetry in ordinary working-class life, in guys who work in car washes, guys doing hard time and guys who finished tours of Vietnam. He sees the raw beauty in the North Jersey skyline, in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets and in the darkness on the edge of town. Sure, he has faltered at times and made music that seemed overly domesticated, but Tracks vigorously documents Springsteen's struggle to stay committed to his core subject: the postindustrial howl of Everyman. The years haven...