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...limestone from a quarry at Taung?Tswana for "place of the lion"?about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Kimberley. Dart determined that the skull had come from a five-year-old primate (the order of mammals that includes humans, apes and monkeys) who had lived on the threshold of humanity. Still, he recognized that the creature was even more primitive than Java man. He named it Australopithecus africanus, or the southern ape of Africa. The skull displayed an odd blend of ape and human characteristics. Dart's creature clearly had a large, apelike face, but its teeth were...
...last pieces of the six -week reconstruction job were put in place, the team mem bers found themselves staring into the empty sockets of a highly evolved hominid. The skull, called "1470" after its National sockets of a highly evolved -?hominid. The skull, called On the threshold of humanity. "1470" after its National Museums of Kenya catalogue number, was manlike in configuration and, according to Leakey's measurements, once contained a brain of 800 cc.?more than half the average size of a modern human brain. But what excited the team most was the age of the skull...
Given these developments, it is not surprising to note that we are on the threshold of a new mass movement seeking to abolish nuclear weapons, ban nuclear power, stop the arms race, and use the money saved to address human needs. These are the challenges which speak directly to the issues of human survival in our time...
...welfare programs: aid to families with dependent children, food stamps and assistance to the aged, blind and disabled. The cash payment will amount to a guaranteed annual income; for a family of four with no other income, it would be $4,200 a year, or 65% of the poverty threshold of $6,440 for that family...
...percussion cockpit that resembled nothing so much as a mod four-poster converted into a padded cell for the phantom of the opera. The music built relentlessly, awesomely powered by 72,000 watts worth of amplification -enough to start a medium-sized radio station. The volume never reached the threshold of pain (130 decibels), but it was, in Salmon's words, "enough to peel an apple ten feet...