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Besides, one isolated case can't explain the demise of an entire population spread across thousands of miles. The mystery is all the greater as paleoanthropologists learn how similar to our own ancestors the Neanderthals were. They hunted cooperatively, they buried their dead, and their brains were as big as ours. The species' relative equality, says Trinkaus, "makes perfect sense, given that the two groups coexisted for several thousand years without one or the other being dominant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up From The Apes | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

Hollywood, as we all know, runs on high hopes and impossible dreams, which just often enough--about once in a thousand times--come true. But at a certain level, it also runs on cold pizza, unpaid phone bills and scripts by people for whom English is a second language. It's at this latter level that Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin), who operates Bowfinger International Pictures out of his ratty bungalow, scrounges along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dreamers and Schemers | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...with other items, though, and found that should I so choose, cashing in without getting ripped off is easier than you might expect. Do not take collectibles to the neighborhood memorabilia dealer, who will give you half of retail value. For items worth a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, online auction sites like eBay or Amazon.com are a great place to sell. For more valuable items, sports auctioneers, such as Leland's, Mastro and Superior Sports, are worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in the Game | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...site, he found a seven-foot-tall stone monument that had been built by Mayans over a thousand years ago. But the statue's elaborate pectoral ornament was missing...

Author: By Maria S. Shim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Archaeologist Graham Identifies Stolen Mayan Artifact | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...alternative" senior gift fund to protest the lack of tenured women on the faculty. Peimer and Reese asked seniors to withhold their donations from the University and to store them in a private escrow account instead until Harvard hired more women to tenured spots. The fund raised several thousand dollars overall...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior Gift Raises Record Amount | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

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