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...animals were removed from each ship. Likewise, all useful equipment, gunpowder, or stores were confiscated and taken back to the Shenandoah. Afterward, the parties searched the whaling vessel's holds for any available combustibles, including whale products, pitch, tar, and turpentine. These they spread throughout the vessels. Bulkheads, the upright walls compartmentalizing each vessel were torn down and piled in cabins and forecastles; the bulkheads' destruction at once created fuel and improved draft for the fire to come. The Confederates then opened all the hatches and cut the rigging. With no wind, the sails hung limp and free. Finally, before...
...from previous estimates that the human-chimp split occurred 6.5 to 7.4 million years ago, a figure that was based on hominid fossils with distinctive human features dating from that period. “It suggests that there was gene flow after the development of human-like features, like upright walking,” Reich said. To explain the discrepancy between the appearance of human-like features and the later divergence date, the Broad researchers hypothesize that interbreeding and hybridization may have occurred. In short, early humans and chimps may have mated and produced offspring before the two species permanently...
Forget about handbags for a moment and look around. Globe-trotting professionals with heavy laptops in tow are turning to upright rollers to transport their gear. The increasing popularity of those mobile offices has brought high fashion to what used to be a purely functional accessory. Suddenly every brand from Prada to Valentino is rolling luggage down the runway...
Perhaps the most innovative new idea in luggage is one that addresses the weight issue. Last month Ricardo Beverly Hills introduced an upright roller with a built-in scale. "Anyone who's been through that embarrassing moment at the check-in counter when you're over the weight limit and you have to unpack in front of everyone will appreciate this product," says Cobb. Just lift the model off the floor, and a small screen under the handle will tell you whether you have overpacked...
...alienated soul. Giving an account in court of a near rape, she describes being followed down a street by a man, panicking when she realizes the only self-defense she knows is origami, then asking the guy out dancing. At the end of her new show at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City, she strips totally naked and mimes her entire preshow shower ritual to the strains of Helen Reddy's Candle on the Water. "If I start writing something that smacks of something I've done before, I'll scrap it," she says. "If it doesn...