All categories - 5 July 2007

But what about Lucy? This most recent discovery in Africa is being heralded by many as a true transitional form, typically a replacement for the outmoded australopithecines. Could this be hasty judgment? Let's examine the evidence. Lucy is a partial fossil skeleton, about the size of a chimpanzee, supposedly female, discovered by paleontologist Dr. Donald Johanson on November 30, 1974, in Hadar, Ethiopia. It is more complete than most fossil finds in that about 40 percent of the bones of the body have been recovered.

The age is "estimated" to be 3.2 million years. The find includes a V-shaped jaw, part of hip and large bones, and other assorted bones with very little skull fragments.2 There were other finds at the same location, other skulls and U-shaped jawbones.

What evidence makes this creature a transitional form? According to Dr. Johanson, she walked upright! Her brain size is still small, ape-like in proportion, and most of the other features are predominantly ape-like.

2007-07-05 15:39:48 · 12 answers · asked by Dark Angel 3 in Religion & Spirituality

a. a liability
b part of the balance sheet
c part of the expenses
d an asset

2007-07-05 15:39:44 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Small Business

OK so me and this guy (we're kind of complicated) basically we've been dating six months and i started liking him years ago so we got really reallllly deep for..oh four months and then we had spring break..he came back and told me his feelings had changed and there was someone else (that someone else now has a different boyfriend) he told me a month later he wanted me back and i took him back because i was a wreck without him...he's my best friend...and so for about two months we've gotten deeper and deeper and..deeper ha but he went on vacation for the past two weeks and now says...his feelings have changed and...yup you guessed it..there's someone else! we are rediculously close and i can't imagine my life without him...he "still cares about me" and wants to still be close friends...i do too...but the pain is killing me and i don't know if i can handle just being his friend...but i also can't imagine my life without him...what should i do?!?!

2007-07-05 15:39:38 · 19 answers · asked by sb 2 in Singles & Dating

i have hdd 80 GB .i want to know.what capacity before 80gb make the hdd slow

2007-07-05 15:39:34 · 9 answers · asked by jamalfaroz 1 in Other - Hardware

Trying to get songs added onto windows media so i can burn a cd. it only comes up with these videos and i cant figure out how to put it in my library to burn a cd

2007-07-05 15:39:33 · 8 answers · asked by bama_redneck_hunter 2 in Software

It hurts when someone calls me it...I've never tried to talk the way I do, I talk that way natrually. I've been told I talk too proper or I talk 'white'....At 17 im so bemused about society ...I don't live up to the black girl stero-type and because of that I'm taunted by my own race...It really hurts, and messes with my head...What is your take on it?

2007-07-05 15:39:32 · 20 answers · asked by Suzzy 2 in Other - Society & Culture

From the Christian Science Monitor

"This get-tough attitude with businesses is growing across the US. As of April, 40 other states had introduced 199 bills related to employment of undocumented workers – the top subject of immigration-related legislation in the states, according to a report for the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). Although Arizona's new law is apparently the harshest so far, Arkansas, Colorado, Hawaii, Tennessee, and West Virginia are still in the process of enacting legislation to force employers to verify their workers' legal status, cautions Dirk Hegen, an expert on immigration policy at NCSL. Now that federal immigration reform has stalled in Congress, more states are likely to act, he adds."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070705/ts_csm/asanction_1

2007-07-05 15:39:26 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Everyone says stupid stuff like--It just wasnt meant to be, and There was something wrong with it, thats why it didnt survive,
and Are you OK?
No one really understands, thats why I like to ask questions here Because this has happened to so many women, and of course I feel alone--Thank you for all the advice, and kind words it REALLY does help.

2007-07-05 15:39:12 · 8 answers · asked by autumn033171 1 in Pregnancy

Which do you think is a better indicator of a persons' personality, their questions or their answers?

2007-07-05 15:39:08 · 20 answers · asked by dark_knight_1735 4 in Polls & Surveys

It's Sen. Pete Domenici, REPUBLICAN member of the defense appropriations committee. Suddenly he became a liberal, and French too, apparently. He follows Republicans Richard Lugar, John Warner, and George Voinovich in calling for withdrawal. How many more Republicans are secretly liberal traitor bed-wetting commies who hate America?

2007-07-05 15:39:07 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-05 15:39:05 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Software

2007-07-05 15:38:55 · 9 answers · asked by cmebDUCKs 3 in Polls & Surveys

How many years to you have to go to college to be these?
What colleges would be best?

2007-07-05 15:38:35 · 3 answers · asked by crazitexasgirl05 1 in Higher Education (University +)

There has been a _continuous_ human presence in space for a number of years now. On what date did that continuous presence start?

Note: I'm NOT asking, "when did people start going into space." I know that was 1959. I'm asking, "when was the last time outer space was completely free of humans?"

2007-07-05 15:38:34 · 2 answers · asked by RickB 7 in Astronomy & Space

well... you see, i had sound before my computer broke down and i fixed it, but i don't understand why there isn't any sound.
Oh yeah, and i also have a set of speakers, I've plugged them in the right places and even remembered to plug in the plug this time, but it can't seem to turn on...

maybe that's the problem?

i need some help here... can someone please help?

2007-07-05 15:38:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

Some more quotes....thoughts, reactions?

" I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting Her sweetness and respecting Her seniority."

E.B. White

Also,

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

Frank Lloyd Wright

2007-07-05 15:38:17 · 15 answers · asked by ? 4 in Religion & Spirituality

they spill alot of blood....??

2007-07-05 15:38:11 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Is there anyone that is more offensive and repulsive than her? How does her wife deal with it? She is a fat, disgusting pig with a personality to match, just like the Donald said. Dontcha just wish she would die?

2007-07-05 15:38:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

2007-07-05 15:38:03 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I am a 4'11 18 year old working/college student and i need help gaining weight the most i ever weighed was 105lbs and some doctors tells me that i am finished growing others say take vitamins people never complain bout my size or nothing i just want to get from a size 1 or 3 to maybe a 7 or 9 i eat all the time a big appetite but never gain one pound some please give me tips on gaining weight

2007-07-05 15:37:55 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

2007-07-05 15:37:50 · 3 answers · asked by ADAM K 2 in Astronomy & Space

Has anybody been to Clare Valley and is there anything nice to see there and where is a good place to stay. I like reilly's , but have never been there..

2007-07-05 15:37:46 · 2 answers · asked by Bored 2 in South Australia (Adelaide)

ok buying a house and talking about "house bills".John informed me he does not want us to have a house phone and if we do he does not to be listed in the phone book he wants a unlisted #.Now he said i could list my name but not his.When i asked him why he gave me plenty of excusses but could not give me a "good" reason.The funny thing is he was listed for 10 yrs with his exwife and could care less(we are getting married and he is STILL listed with her and that bothers me but he could care less about being in there with her)I know for a fact he does not ow anyone money or running from the police so what could it be?

2007-07-05 15:37:35 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Marriage & Divorce

I mean, c'mon people. You see what's happening in the middle east. How can we subject ourselves to this kind of violent thought. It is this misunderstanding that breeds evil. Not the Bible, not a godless soul. I may be sounding a little naiive, but what if.....what if...we could discuss our differences in mature, and might I argue, more approriate setting?

What if we could make the planet a friendlier or more cohesive place?

After all.... isn't that god would have wanted?

and if there is no god, then it's up to us to make the world better....isn't it?

2007-07-05 15:37:14 · 23 answers · asked by Just an average teen 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I want to know if it is important to get baptized it u want to be able to go to heaven

Im christian and i havent been baptized yet and im just curious about it

2007-07-05 15:37:06 · 14 answers · asked by Frank 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-05 15:36:59 · 6 answers · asked by emmasuga 1 in Zoology

my polka skills are going to amaze you

2007-07-05 15:36:56 · 8 answers · asked by Cliff 6 in Polls & Surveys

I get the nastiest answers from people when all Ièm doing is asking questions. Like Ièm supposed to not even question George W. Bush. I say anything against him and people call me all kinds of names.

2007-07-05 15:36:46 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

1. Baghdad Rosie Gay
2. Three Dollar Bill Gay
3. Gay as Airbus Gay
4. John Kerry Gay
5. Rock Music Gay
6. San Francisco Gay
7. Lockheed Gay

2007-07-05 15:36:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys