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That remarkable discovery is the departure point for In Search of Human Origins, a three-hour Nova mini-series that airs on PBS next week. Over three consecutive nights, beginning Monday, Johanson himself is the tour guide on a journey through the physical and intellectual landscape of human evolution. Starting with the 3-ft.-tall, small-brained Lucy and her kin, he traces the ascent of humankind through some of its milestones: the emergence of toolmaking, the transition from scavenging to hunting and the struggle between the first modern humans and their Neanderthal cousins for control of the earth...
Vermont coach Mike Gilligan immediately called time-out, but just when it looked like this "three-hour tour" through the ECAC's top team was headed for disaster, the Cats rallied...
...month; in January, after inflation shot to 12%, he began talking in terms of 8% to 9%. Then two weeks ago, while attending the annual World Economic Forum at the Swiss resort of Davos, his pledge of 18% prompted an exasperated Fyodorov to quip that "after the three-hour flight back to Moscow, there will probably be a different figure...
...that won the audience prize for best dramatic feature (Fine Line); Clerks, a low- budget comedy set in a convenience store (Miramax); and Martha and Ethel, a documentary about two lifelong nannies (Sony Pictures Classics). Several other movies are under negotiation with distributors, among them Hoop Dreams, a nearly three-hour documentary about two ghetto youths aiming for basketball success that was perhaps the festival's most exciting discovery...
Aides say Clinton is aware of the problem but has trouble taking the steps to correct it. Where once he participated in grueling, two- and three-hour briefings on everything from the budget to the rehiring of fired air-traffic controllers, he has begun to realize that he was having, as he put it, "arguments I didn't need to win." He once insisted on sitting through a briefing on maritime reform only to say afterward, "I shouldn't have spent an hour on that." Observed an official: "He does want to be endlessly involved in the minutiae. He sits...