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...Olduvai Gorge, the famous Great Rift Valley site in Tanzania where the Leakeys did much of their digging, Mary worked her fossil-hunting magic again 10 years later. While Louis lay feverish in his tent, she burst in, shouting "I've got him! I've got him--our man!" The find, consisting of two bulges of brown fossilized molars protruding from a slope, turned out to be the skull of a 1.75 million-year-old human ancestor the Leakeys called Zinjanthropus ("Man from East Africa"). The discovery, notes paleoanthropologist F. Clark Howell of the University of California, Berkeley, marked...
...weeks this appears to have declined sharply. Lebed, the most popular politician in the country at large, has never had many admirers in the government. Until now, however, the predominant view among people like presidential chief of staff Anatoli Chubais has been that Lebed should be kept inside the tent, where he can be at least partly controlled, rather than allowed to run amuck in the world outside. Now the Kremlin has decided that Lebed is more dangerous inside than out. Chubais and others seem to be basing their conclusion on their own grim analysis of what lies ahead...
...Government Department is a big tent," Shepsle said. "Some of us are closely tied with economics; others work with international studies. Some will be happier campers than others, but all will be happy to be together...
...than they were when nearly everyone in town read the same paper and watched the same newscasts. "The biggest single change in the last decade," says Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, "is that all sorts of upstarts and ruffians and charlatans have elbowed their way into the media tent. News has become everything from Hard Copy to Entertainment Tonight to America Online. In some ways that's very healthy. But now all kinds of rumors and innuendo and conspiracies can make their way onto the media radar screen...
Close your eyes and think back to Frosh Week: the mixers, the lines at the Union, the massive tent with a gazillion organizations railing at you to sign their lists. Remember the dizzying confusion? Remember signing up for the strangest clubs centered around activities you never even knew existed? Remember thinking "we-ell, I guess I might be interested in that, I'm not sure, I never tried...," scribbling your name on a sheet of paper and dashing for the exit of the tent...