Word: swisher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time without benefit of Frankensteinian science--just pituitary, brain and gonadal equipment. In sheer numbers, the toad puts us to shame. Isn't it high time we acknowledge that septuplets are the result of scientific technology run amuck? With sheer numbers we relentlessly destroy our planet. JOHN E. SWISHER Key Largo...
...Lady," as a mother-fixated, master-of-disguise strangler on the loose on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He's tracked by a young George Segal as a hangdog cop with some mother problems of his own. For extra currency, try Steiger's third incarnation as Dorian Smith, the swisher with a heart of stone who's been a very bad boy. Look for "Jaws" mayor (and The Graduate's Mr. Robinson) Murray Hamilton as Inspector Haines, and Charlie's Angels go-between Bosley (David Doyle) as the piqued Lt. Dawson. Really slow weekend? Try Tommy Lee Jones and Faye...
...went extinct elsewhere in the world, but also must revisit two of science's most hotly debated questions: Where on the habitable continents did modern humans first emerge, and how did they come to dominate the world? "These dates will stir up a lot of controversy," says geochronologist Carl Swisher of the Berkeley Geochronology Center in Berkeley, California, who headed the study. "Some people definitely won't believe them...
...1930s and 1970s. The skulls had unusually large braincases, and so were estimated to be anywhere from 100,000 to 400,000 years old, among the youngest Homo erectus remains ever found. For more than a generation, those estimates stood. Two years ago, however, a team headed by Swisher decided to find out just how old the fossils really were, using instruments that determine age by measuring radioactive decay in fossils that have absorbed uranium from the surrounding soil...
...Swisher and his colleagues believe that their discovery bolsters the out-of- Africa side. If African and Asian H. erectus were separate for almost a million years, the reasoning goes, they could have evolved into two separate species. But it would be virtually impossible for those isolated groups to evolve into one species, H. sapiens. Swisher thinks the Asian H. erectus died off and H. sapiens came from Africa separately...