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...major differences between humans and apes, Johanson notes, are that the former are more intelligent and walk upright. There's one more: humans are intensely and endlessly curious about where and how they began. In Search of Human Origins will do much to satisfy that curiosity...
...stood, a chipper Brit in black, with a shock of pepper and salt locks, leaning on his very first upright bass--an old $150 job. To his right was crooked music stand full of tricks of the free trade: various and sundry kitchen utensils, brushes, sticks, bows, and scrubbers--all of which he managed to employ in his performance that night...
Martins also created his own event--remaining upright without sharp skates. The results here were mixed--Martins' skates went out from under him about four times during the first two periods, earning him a nice ice-cold bottom. However, he did take home a worthy consolation gift--an assist and two goals, one of which he banked in off the goalie's pads from behind...
...show Hard Copy. In Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed the Sun. In the U.S. the baiting was a bit more genial. "Suddenly," Howard Stern told his nationwide radio audience, "Pee-wee Herman is an upright citizen." And Jay Leno on the Tonight Show noted, "Someone said when you hear the name Michael Jackson it epitomizes all that's kind and good. So did the name Heidi until a month...
...that he or she would turn down all that? Doubtful. Those of us who scribble for a living have demonstrated that if you scratch us, you'll find a TV personality waiting, with batting eyelashes, to be discovered. For all of print's tut-tutting about TV, the most upright of us, like David Broder of the Washington Post, do it. . I do it, and most of my colleagues do it. Even lefties like the Nation's Alexander Cockburn do it. Most of us love doing it. We'll do it for nothing on C-SPAN and ^ MacNeil/Lehrer...