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DIED. E.T. HALL, 77, archaeologist and leading archaeometrist who famously uncovered the Piltdown Man hoax; in Oxford, England. Using X-ray fluorescence, Hall showed that the Piltdown Man's skeleton--once thought to be evolution's "missing link"--had been stained to look fossilized and that the teeth of an orangutan had been filed to appear more human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 3, 2001 | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...elder brother studying mechanical engineering, and I was interested in that. My parents had another child between my brother and me who died when he was three or four. I don't remember him, but my father once showed me a little biscuit with the boy's teeth marks in it. Now I look back, and I see pictures of the little boy and the terrible suffering in his face, and I realize that he died of a heart problem and that had he lived in my time, I, as a cardiac surgeon, probably could have cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Heart To Heart | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...extent of double talk and hedging is more than a little remarkable - for an event that has no teeth, the WCAR is sure causing a lot of discomfort. The U.S. is not attending, of course. Or is it? Well, it's pulled Colin Powell, but the Administration is sending a delegation headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael E. Southwick. His delegation is not attending as such; they're showing up to "work the halls" against anti-Israel language. But they have to register as delegates in order to gain access. If they fail to protect Israel from being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moral Musical Chairs at the Racism Conference | 8/31/2001 | See Source »

...Capitol Hill. By Aug. 3, it was apparent that lawmakers from both parties would bury any cuts he proposed. Republicans were locked and loaded; Democrats pretended to be sympathetic, just for fun. Says Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a former Army officer: "He was sailing into the teeth of a storm everywhere he looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumsfeld: Older but Wiser? | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...media sinks its teeth deeper into the story, Chandra Levy's disappearance becomes less about the person and more about the scandal. Levy has been lost twice - first physically, and now in the media coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Chandra Levy | 8/23/2001 | See Source »

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