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...only the rattled citizens of the real Los Angeles could be quite so blase. If only they could take their umpteenth aftershock so much in stride. Instead they are suffering sharp and lingering emotional tremors from the 6.8- magnitude Northridge earthquake on Jan. 17 that killed 57 people and caused $15 billion in damage -- and they don't mind showing it. The original hyperactivity -- and some panic -- has been followed by delayed shock and a period of numbness, and now, more than a month later, by an abiding anxiety. Few doubt that Los Angeles has been taking it harder than...
...important human characteristic: unlike any species of primate known to have come before, this creature walked fully upright. How did the researchers know? The knee joint was built in such a way that the animal could fully straighten its legs. That would have freed it from the inefficient, bowlegged stride that keeps today's chimps and gorillas from extended periods of two-legged walking. Presuming that this diminutive hominid was a female, Johanson named her Lucy. (While he was examining the first fossils in his tent, the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was playing on his tape recorder...
Penn's coach, at least, is taking the elevation in stride...
...rink. World champions and gold-medal favorites tumble as ignominiously as tots on double runners. Ask Brian Boitano of the U.S. and Kurt Browning of Canada. Or Germany's Gunda Niemann, the favorite in the women's 3,000-m race last week. One second she is in full stride, the next she is sliding on her derriere. Bye-bye, medal. Is anyone surprised that ice is meant to be slippery...
Finally, despite its public huffing, the U.S. seems to be taking North Korea's supposed nuclear capacity in stride. Whatever exists is "not militarily significant," says U.S. Pacific Commander Charles Larson. Yet, adds the admiral, it is obviously "significant politically." Which is why no one tells the truth -- neither the West nor the North Koreans. "As soon as the bombs' existence is confirmed unambiguously," says a State Department official, "you have to do something about it. Better to let what is be and move to cap it at the present low-threat level...