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...platyops not only had a much flatter face than Lucy, she also had smaller teeth. From the teeth, the scientists conclude that it probably ate fruits, berries and small insects while A. afarensis consumed tougher vegetation like roots and grasses. "They were unlikely to compete," says team member Fred Spoor of University College London. "Two species usually don't occupy the same ecological niche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gang Hits Again | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...that at its lower edge the waterfall is cut off mid-drop. Lemieux wittily extends into the museum with a rectangle of blue plush carpet that begins on the ground where the canvas leaves off, its velvety nap now pulled in various directions and covered with the incidental spoor of footprints. The piece is a good-humored transgression of the viewer's space, and a clever juxtaposition of mass-produced objects...

Author: By Kirstin Butler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fresh Produce: Art from Boston | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

...stimuli rather than the most important thing, which is something to take home in your head." In the Company of Men is the toxic antidote to such disposable entertainment. Love it or loathe it, the picture sticks to you like guilt sweat after adulterous sex. It leaves a little spoor trail. Food for thought? No, a banquet for debate and denial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CAUTION: MALE FRAUD | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...such, the innocuous-seeming creature and its curvy spoor mark the threshold of a critical interlude in the history of life. For the Cambrian is a period distinguished by the abrupt appearance of an astonishing array of multicelled animals - animals that are the ancestors of virtually all the creatures that now swim, fly and crawl through the visible world. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Life Exploded | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...know, there's a Simpsons episodewhere Homer needs to watch a video about drunkdriving and it's a spoor, really gory and violent.And there's a pan of the audience and everyone isvery disgusted except for Homer, who's laughing,and then they show his thoughts and he's saying'That's funny because it's not me.' I don't knowthese people. It kind of sucks but I'm glad it'snot happening...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Fat Day Singer `Moves Kind of Funky' | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

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