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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much of their digging, Mary worked her fossil-hunting magic again 10 years later. While Louis lay feverish in his tent, she burst in, shouting "I've got him! I've got him--our man!" The find, consisting of two bulges of brown fossilized molars protruding from a slope, turned out to be the skull of a 1.75 million-year-old human ancestor the Leakeys called Zinjanthropus ("Man from East Africa"). The discovery, notes paleoanthropologist F. Clark Howell of the University of California, Berkeley, marked the start of "the truly scientific study of the evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARY NICOL LEAKEY: 1913-1996: FIRST LADY OF FOSSILS | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...life advocates seized upon the crime as the logical end to the slippery slope of abortion rights. It offered an occasion to revisit the effort to close a "health of mother" loophole that allows partial-birth abortions, not just for women in dire straits but teenagers who have changed their minds. You don't have to be persuaded that the difference between what Amy and Brian did and a third-trimester abortion is only time (a couple of weeks) and place (a $56-a-night motel rather than a clinic) to retreat to a dark corner of your conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDREN WITHOUT SOULS | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...GURULE (D) District 3 (Western Slope--Pueblo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: COLORADO | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...rooms, with the final decision being based on the four aforementioned factors. However, in truth, they are hard to compute and more difficult to weigh. Lighting level varies and is practically subjective, while age is difficult (though not impossible) to determine. And how does one know if a given slope of the seating rows is enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Sleep in Class | 10/12/1996 | See Source »

Emerson 105: Decent. The rows go back very far, but the lighting is bright and the slope is pretty flat. But die-hards like myself aren't fazed by these concerns; if you go to the back row you're pretty safe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Sleep in Class | 10/12/1996 | See Source »

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