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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given their 2 million-year-plus life-span, the australopithecines were surely one of evolution's better experiments. But nature is an inveterate tinkerer, even with successful species. Between 3 million and 1.9 million years B.P., several variations on the Australopithecus theme popped up in eastern and southern Africa, including A. africanus, A. aethiopicus, A. robustus and A. boisei. (Just to complicate matters, the last three are assigned by some experts to an entirely different genus, Paranthropus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up From The Apes | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

Project manager Jeff Cushman said the construction is projected to span over 2 and 1/2 years and will cost $52 million. Renovations will include the addition of air conditioning, a sprinkler system and a new fire detection system...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus Construction Faces Few Setbacks | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

Scott A. Resnick '01, a Crimson editor, is an economics concentrator in Cabot House. This summer he is working at C-SPAN in Washington...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, | Title: The First Time is Always Special | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

Scott A. Resnick '01, a Crimson editor, is an economics concentrator in Cabot House. This summer he is working at C-SPAN in Washington...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, | Title: The First Time is Special | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...wood--resulting in a high incidence of respiratory illnesses. But I am lucky. I am staying in a house with a stove and a refrigerator and (at times) hot water. (The water company distributes its goods in a Kafkaesque manner; when the tanks are dry--which happened for a span of four days during my stay--the community resorts to using buckets...

Author: By Samantha A. Goldstein, | Title: Chiapas Summer | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

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