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...strapping youth," says Leakey. "We used to think of our ancestors as rather puny and rather fragile. This shows them to be much stronger and better built than we ever imagined." Full grown, Leakey says, the boy might have reached 6 ft. Added Walker: "He's bigger than most human populations around the world today." Walker concedes that he does not know for sure if the specimen is a freak, but in a limited sample from a larger population, odds strongly favor the selection of the most common denominator...
...that the play is unworthy of resuscitation. Edmond Rostand was 29 when he wrote Cyrano; he seasoned this tale of a 17th century cavalier with the dash, sweep, idealism and tireless eloquence of youth. In 1898, when the original French production played London, it arrived like a gust of rose-scented air in the stolid cathedral of naturalism. Proclaimed Critic Max Beerbohm: "Even if Cyrano be not a classic, it is at least a wonderfully ingenious counterfeit of one." And even if, in this century, the counterfeit has become more evident than the ingenuity, Rostand's rhapsody has attracted...
...even more obvious: a girl named Poverty is too gross and slothful to attract a bridegroom. She cannot even get into her shoes until she stops living on handouts, takes a job as a maid and loses weight. In good time, she becomes the bride of a wealthy youth...
...city has waited long enough to act on the problem of police violations of the civil rights of Cantabrigians, especially those of Black youth. Councilor Saundra Graham's current proposal to install a law enforcement watchdog comes after nine months of discussion among residents, police officials and city authorities. Currently, it is the only firm proposal in a whirlwhind of rhetoric about police violations...
Schuster filed his first story on is the Freshman Outdoor Program, which, he said, helped "build down his fear." This idea of helping students, Schuster said, would be interesting to Romanian youth because it is so novel...