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...Professor of Anthropology Daniel E. Lieberman ’86, who gave a speech at the Geological Lecture Hall last night. Audience members lined up along the hall’s back wall as Lieberman took the stage and began his lecture, “Survival of the Swiftest, Smartest or Fattest? Human Evolution 150 Years After Darwin.” “What happened in human evolution? Are humans now evolving? What will happen in human evolution?” Lieberman asked his captive audience. “Our bodies are not entirely designed for the world that...
HONORED. ELLEN MACARTHUR, 28, British sailor who completed the swiftest around-the-world solo sea voyage in history, 43,000 km of ocean in 71 days; with the rank of Dame of the British Empire; by Queen Elizabeth II; in London. MacArthur sailed a custom-designed 23-m yacht, which she nicknamed "Moby," and is the youngest woman to be made a Dame, the equivalent of a knight-hood. "The trip has taken pretty much all I have," she said, but vowed more journeys. "There are lots more records out there...
...Tymoshenko launched her own opposition party and last year joined forces with Yushchenko's Our Ukraine. Having clawed her way back into power, does Tymoshenko have a political agenda? While Yushchenko focuses on diplomacy - last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he promised the "swiftest possible attainment" of the criteria for E.U. membership - Tymoshenko says economic reform is still her priority. "Taxes must become inevitable but affordable," she says. "I want to say to people, 'Forget about paying bribes. Pay taxes.'" Yushchenko is confident that public doubts about her will fade; "Time is the best doctor...
...their bid to clinch further concessions, wager-crazy Hong Kongers now face very high odds. The swiftest way for Tung to ease public fury would be to shuffle his Cabinet, obscuring a handful of lieutenants who have become walking voodoo dolls around town. He's adamantly refused to take that step and is even less likely to retire himself. The loftiest aspiration of the marchers?speeding up democratic reforms to allow a directly elected Chief Executive and legislature by 2007 at the earliest?requires a big, generous and highly uncharacteristic nod from Beijing. In the Chinese-fire-drill events...
...punishment for the very rare cases of cadet matrimony for the past 163 years. "Any cadet who is married prior to graduation," the academy's handbook says, "shall be separated from the military academy." But before the separation process was over--Army paperwork isn't the world's swiftest--the couple had their marriage annulled by a civilian court...