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...paleoanthropology, in the sense that we had very few fossils beyond three million years old at that point. Most of the evidence for human evolution older than three million years, you could fit in the palm of your hand. One of the major things she did was open wide that window. She showed us conclusively that upright walking and bipedalism preceded all of the other changes we'd normally consider being human, such as tool-making. She gave us a glimpse of what older ancestors would look like. Lucy is really at a nice point on the family tree...
...costs allocated to OneSource, the cleaning subcontractor for Harvard Real Estate properties. Only about 40 percent of Harvard’s custodial staff is directly hired, so similar measures at other schools and departments would drastically affect the overall custodial staffing levels. These cuts are part of a university-wide effort to reduce spending to compensate for the rumored $8 billion loss in Harvard’s endowment. Although additional layoffs of service employees have yet to be announced, many workers are bracing themselves for similar layoffs across all departments and schools...
...operative back from Iraq says the room for exploiting our gullibility when it comes to chatter is wide. "There is little understanding of deception in the agency anymore. As a service, it doesn't do deception operations and therefore doesn't believe they are run against...
...justice has to be the legal challenge of all time. The International Criminal Court has worldwide authority, but its executive power is limited to a few buildings in the Hague and its budget to $125 million, one-thirtieth the size of the New York Police Department's. It has wide agreement on what constitute the worst offenses, but its mandate to prosecute them is rejected by the governments of more than half the world's people...
What this means is that the next few months will see a wide range of options under consideration, including ideas that go well beyond the health-care plan Obama proposed in his campaign, which centered on effort to expand coverage by requiring employers to provide health insurance to their workers. "Everything has got to be on the table - everything," says Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, who will be one of the key figures leading the effort on Capitol Hill. (See who's who in Obama's White House...