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...then lush woodlands and savannas of eastern Africa--where our family tree first took root--were the habitat of rival species, most of which were evolutionary dead ends. But what about before that? Paleontologists have generally agreed that there was just one hominid line, beginning with a small, upright-walking species known as Australopithecus afarensis, most famously represented by "Lucy," a remarkably complete (about 40%) skeleton found in Ethiopia...
...what we had collided with. I was dumb struck. I had no idea any other vessel was in the area. I saw it listing to starboard and back to the stern. I remember crying out, "God, please get them off that ship." Within a minute or two it was upright and going down. I was begging God to get them off--and it was as if something died inside...
...among her neighbors for her sunny optimism and her skill at child rearing. If the reserved, aloof Hanssen was less popular, he was still regarded by those who knew him as a good father, good husband, good professional. And a good son. "He has always been very honest and upright," said his mother Vivian Hanssen, 88, reached by TIME at her home in Venice, Fla. "I don't understand how he could be leading a double life. I hope there are extenuating circumstances...
...very much, but the Christian woman should return to America," says a local policeman. For now, Valori sits quietly in the tiny apartment she wants to keep as home. Hannah, Victoria, Esther, Loice, Mary and Charity have said their prayers and are tucked into their bunk beds. The prized upright piano she and Bruce bought last November sits in her bedroom, ready for the morning's hymns. And as the policemen, cadres and other details of the communist state tromp through her living room, she simply retreats to the back room and to her Bible. "I have survived this terrible...
Gertrude sits upright on a donated bed in a cardboard shack in a rough Durban township that is now the compass of her world. Perhaps 10 ft. square, the little windowless room contains a bed, one sheet and blanket, a change of clothes and a tiny cooking ring, but she has no money for paraffin to heat the food that a home-care worker brings. She must fetch water and use a toilet down the hill. "Everything I have," she says, "is a gift." Now the school that owns the land under her hut wants to turn it into...