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...closest we've got to the common ancestor. But dentally, it's just like Ardipithecus, except for a few minor characteristics." The mix of primitive and more advanced traits leaves him similarly unimpressed, since such mixing has been seen in various species discovered over the past 80 years. In spite of what his colleagues say, White believes that Toumai may well be the direct ancestor of all later hominids, Lucy and ourselves included...
...year I turned out an anthology called Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages, which is, in a sense, my anti- Harry Potter anthology, because I loathe Harry Potter. Those books are hopeless and massively cliched--bad thinking and bad writing. And they will vanish. In spite of all the hype and all the 120 million copies, they're bound for the rubbish heap in five, six years...
...Ulysses S. Grant's "Personal Memoirs" under the title "Personal Veracity." Did they misread Wilson's notoriously crabby handwriting (the earlier collection quotes it accurately)? Or was it a Freudian slip on Wilson's part? Either way the mistake goes, literally, unnoted. The amazing thing is that, in spite of the efforts of the editors to get in the way of the readability of these letters, they still manage to hold your interest...
...real heroes are at it around me, too. They jog and bike past me, either oblivious to or in spite of the incredibly welcoming target the bridge would present to any number of potential terrorists. They don’t go crazy and entertain the thought of shutting down the pedestrian walk and putting guns on the bridge’s towers, even thought it may very well prevent the unknown next disaster, what The Onion has cleverly dubbed “the July 19 attacks.” Either deliberately or as an instinctive form of mental self-defense...
Brodeur said the union will press ahead with its boycott in spite of the fact that projectionist unions across the country have had little success in similar contract disputes...