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Unfortunately, I also tend to poach the bills out of her piggy bank late at night to pay the baby sitter or the pizza guy. (One night I even dipped into her petty cash to slip a buck under her pillow from the tooth fairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piggy-Bank Blues | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...told, the scientists excavated the bones and teeth of 17 individuals. Given their age, no one was surprised that they showed a mix of chimpanzee-like and human traits that as a whole are more primitive than those of A. afarensis: smaller molars, larger canines and thinner tooth enamel, suggesting a diet rich in easy-to-chew fruits and vegetables. The new species, says paleontologist Tim White of the University of California at Berkeley, a co-leader of the expedition, "is way closer to an ape than to an australopithecine and is significantly different from any other hominid...

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

...already discovered hominid fossils that are more than 5 million years old, though he refuses to elaborate before detailed studies are completed. But Leakey and Walker readily acknowledge that they are studying two 5.5 million-year-old hominid teeth and a similarly ancient jaw fragment with an embedded tooth from a site in northern Kenya. "They look like australopithecines with lots of primitive features," Walker says, but there isn't enough evidence from these fossils alone to claim a new species...

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

...yielded 800,000-year-old hominids that Spanish researchers believe are a new species, perhaps the most recent common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals. Named Homo antecessor (Latin for explorer or pioneer), they had a primitive jaw and prominent brow ridges but a projecting face, sunken cheekbones and tooth development similar to that of modern humans...

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

...drinks club soda and runs off during the Senate's official dinner window to be with his stepchildren Curran, 16, and Caroline, 13. He's a constant presence at their plays and sporting events, and has even been known to get personally involved in pulling a loose tooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell, John | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

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