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Long hidden in the shadow of his taller, more charismatic brother, Raul has stepped into the spotlight this year as the champion of economic and agricultural reforms long opposed by Fidel. While Fidel was exhorting hungry Cubans with hoary slogans like "Socialism or death," Raul went to the people last spring, asking party members and peasants alike about the government's shortcomings. As economic woes mounted, Raul, head of the country's Revolutionary Armed Forces, subbed for his brother and delivered the traditional July 26th speech commemorating the start of the Cuban revolution. And Raul pushed...
...What was incredible about it was that Even likes basketball, but he's not a huge person," Gell said. "He was just so strong a person that he was able to get the respect of people a foot taller and two years older than...
...Harvard Square is not what it used to be," shesays. Taller buildings such as Holyoke Center have"changed the character of Harvard Square...
Continues Kagay, "The chief punks are these two little guys from North House. I would just like to say to them: Dear two short tutors. I am taller than you. I am better than you. The only reason you win our basketball games is because you keep going through my legs...
Their adaptations to the rigors of prehistoric African life enabled members of the H. habilis clan to survive as a species for 500,000 years or more, and at least one group of them apparently evolved, around 2 million years B.P., into a taller, stronger, smarter variety of human. From the neck down, Homo erectus, on average about 5 ft. 6 in. tall, was probably almost indistinguishable from a modern human. Above the neck -- well, these were still primitive humans. The skulls have flattened foreheads and prominent brow ridges like those of a gorilla or chimpanzee, and the jawbone shows...