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...other in logical order. Now all that has changed. "We can no longer talk of a great chain of being in the 19th century sense, from which there is a missing link," says Phillip Tobias, 51, Dart's successor as professor of anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand medical school in Johannesburg. "We should think rather of multiple strands forming a network of evolving populations, diverging and converging, some strands disappearing, others giving rise to further evolutionary development...
...more whites, though, saw Soweto as a warning that the artificial and unfair structure of South African society cannot be long endured. White students at Witwatersrand University−not widely known as a hotbed of youthful leftism−held demonstrations of their own in sympathy for the Soweto scholars; some of the university protesters wore placards saying WHY SHOOT CHILDREN? THEY ARE THE FUTURE and BLACK EDUCATION KILLS. In Parliament, the leader of the small opposition Progressive Party, Colin Eglin, accused the government's African administrators of "arrogance, indifference and rank incompetence." Eglin also demanded the appointment...
...entirely farfetched. The earth bears the scars of at least two impacts that some scientists ascribe to comets: at the site of the Great Tunguska catastrophe, which leveled the Siberian landscape for more than 20 miles around in 1908, and in the geological formation known as the Witwatersrand gold field in South Africa. The possibility of a hit also fascinated Jules Verne. In his 1877 story Hector Servadac, the earth is smashed to bits by a comet, and the protagonists drift off into space on one of the fragments. Statistically, the likelihood of a comet colliding with the earth...
...flattery, TIME is flattered indeed; it has come in for more than its share of parody since its birth in 1923. Imitations have been done by such well-known writers as Wolcott Gibbs (1936) and Art Buchwald (1966), and by such distant institutions as the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa (last spring). Why TIME? "It is a universally recognizable magazine, a quality essential to any successful parody," explains Lampoon Staffer Douglas Kenney. "We needed TIME'S shotgun effect to take after American society...
Opened this month, the clinic employs a technique developed in the mid-1950s by Professor Ockert S. Heyns (pronounced Haynes), 61, of the Uni versity of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Heyns, seeking means of relaxing and stretching abdominal muscles during labor to reduce the pain of childbirth, hit upon the notion that a reduction of atmospheric pressure outside the abdomen might help. According to him, a woman's uterus pushes forward and changes shape from oval to nearly spherical during labor contractions. But often, he explains, the muscles of the abdominal wall interfere with this transformation, causing...