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Wrangham said he reasoned that the nutritional effect of cooking should be evident from the fossil record. There was only one period that shows dramatic changes in tooth structure and body size, about 1.9 million years...

Author: By Thomas J. Castillo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Publishes Research Hypothesizing Date When Man First Cooked Hot Meal | 3/24/2000 | See Source »

...junior faculty front we have five possibilities," he says. "Three have said yes and we're fighting tooth and nail for the other...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ec Dept. Attracts Leading Faculty | 3/9/2000 | See Source »

...asylum on Elian's behalf, on the grounds that only Juan Gonzalez is his legal guardian and has the sole right to speak for the child. Still, that's not going to stop the Florida Gonzalez family, the Cuban-American activist community and conservative Republican lawmakers from fighting tooth and nail to keep the boy here. And that could create a difficult political choice for the Clinton administration. Less so for Fidel Castro, who's reaped an unexpected domestic political dividend from the actions of the U.S. and the exiled activists, which have enraged ordinary Cubans. Whether Elian is reunited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cubans Hit the Street Over Elian Gonzalez | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

...while mysterious, may clear the way for good, that the soul is perfected only in battle, that pain and ecstasy are somehow twins, that only a soul--or a century--that has truly suffered can truly realize joy. Again we sense this instinctively--the pleasure we feel when a tooth stops hurting reminds us that we live our life in contexts and contrasts, and so perhaps you can argue that only by witnessing, and confronting, great evil were the forces of light able to burn most bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Necessary Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...refracted through water droplets. Maybe this is a good thing, but it sure has taken some of the magic out of parenting, not to mention childhood. Christmas, however, is a time when believers in the plain truth should consider applying some varnish. Parents might want to explain away the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Elvis' ghost and E.T. But we shouldn't be too literal about Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, Virginia... | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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