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...Madagascar and the nearby Comoro Islands, are of great interest because they are thought to resemble the common ancestor of man, monkeys and apes that lived 50 million years ago. Meier, who helped discover two other types of lemur, made his latest find with the aid of a stray dog, who located the tree hole where the nocturnal animal was sleeping. Although five specimens were preserved for museums between 1875 and 1965, scientists knew little about them. Meier found that they are about 14 cm (5.5 in.) long, with a slightly longer furry tail, and weigh less than a chocolate...
...espouses the party line. The Crimson has been tireless and tiresome in its editorial support for every PC cause. Perspective and the Subterranean Review go one step further by adding a dash of socialism. Even when the Advocate and Padan Aram approach political issues in book reviews, they never stray far from the party line...
...implied restraint -- no single, mammoth German state was ever conjured in the speech -- seemed to appeal to many of Bonn's allies, as did the fact that the text betrayed no inclination for West Germany to stray from the folds of NATO or the European Community. The U.S. reacted positively, though it did not endorse Kohl's plan. State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler said that "it should be no cause for concern that the Chancellor has laid out his vision for the future of Germany." The presentation did surprise Western capitals in one regard: Kohl had consulted none of them...
...American policymakers show similar restraint when the controllers try to unnerve them by having a U.S. KC-135 tanker aircraft stray into Soviet airspace and a U.S. destroyer accidentally ram a Soviet submarine. In the role of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is Admiral William Crowe Jr., who in reality stepped down from that position only the day before the taping. "These things happen," he says...
Aerobics, I learned, does not adhere to basic human rights standards established by the Geneva Convention. For 60 minutes your body is at the mercy of an instructor who 1) is not human, and 2) probably tortures stray kittens in her spare time...