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...these ideas may be in trouble. Fossilized seeds, petrified wood and animal bones found by White and his colleagues at the digging site, near the village of Aramis, indicate that it was quite densely wooded when A. ramidus lived there. If the hominid turns out to have been bipedal, as preliminary studies indicate, this could wash away existing theories--though the scientists can't say for sure until other hominid fossil sites of comparable age are found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up From The Apes | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...vast majority of the population of Chiapas lives in the countryside--many in dirt-floor houses, without electricity and running water. According to a recent statistic, over 60 percent of households still cook with wood--resulting in a high incidence of respiratory illnesses. But I am lucky. I am staying in a house with a stove and a refrigerator and (at times) hot water. (The water company distributes its goods in a Kafkaesque manner; when the tanks are dry--which happened for a span of four days during my stay--the community resorts to using buckets...

Author: By Samantha A. Goldstein, | Title: Chiapas Summer | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

During the course of construction, developers rotated the blue wood structure which had housed Tweeter etc. so that its front now faces Winthrop Park...

Author: By Robert B. Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HBS Grads Develop Harvard Square Property | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...dares to hint that a man should strive for humanity, not strutting manhood. And the attractive cast works hard to make the condom gags seem fresh. But this is tired stuff. No one is likely to look back on the '90s, smile dewily and say, "Ah, yes, The Wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wood Directed by Rick Famuyiwa | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

Central Station (1998) and Three Seasons (1999), two critically acclaimed releases, are by former film-lab fellows Walter Salles and Tony Bui. The Wood, a coming-of-age story about three African Americans by Rick Famuyiwa, is due out this week. The list of Sundance students over the years is long and impressive. It includes Quentin Tarantino, Julie Taymor, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sherman Alexie and Anna Deavere Smith. So when you watch 25-year-old Princess Peter-Raboff, an Alaska native and member of the Venetie Indian Reservation, shoot one of her first ever scenes with award-winning Hungarian director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sundance Summer | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

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