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Counters Christopher Stringer of Britain's Natural History Museum: "If we look at the fossil record for the last half-million years, Africa is the only region that has continuity of evolution from primitive to modern humans." The oldest confirmed fossils from modern humans, Stringer points out, are from Africa and the Middle East, up to 120,000 years B.P., and the first modern Europeans and Asians don't show up before 40,000 years...
...what about the new report of the 200,000-year-old human skull in China? Stringer thinks that claim won't stand up to close scrutiny. If it does, he and his colleagues will have a lot of explaining...
...PRESIDENT HOWARD STRINGER...
...Alexis Johnson, a former Under Secretary of State. He returned to Yale for a law degree, clerked for a federal judge in San Francisco and worked as a corporate lawyer in New York City -- but kept being drawn back to journalism, reporting on and off as a TIME stringer before signing on full time four years...
...time. For one thing, the lead hectors are not Helmsian right-wingers but liberal Democrats, Senator Paul Simon and Representative Edward Markey. This time, too, TV executives are groveling a bit, making mea culpas. "It's hard not to believe we've had some role in this," says Howard Stringer, CBS's president. Ted Turner told one congressional committee that he and his peers are "guilty of murder." And so, this time, the broadcasters felt obliged to make some concrete concession: starting two months from now, programs that each network deems potentially upsetting will carry the warning, DUE TO SOME...