http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/us/sept-11-reckoning/decade.html?_r=1&hp BEFORE The towers in spring 2001. In the decade since, most people absorbed 9/11 and moved on, but there are lingering wisps of its effects everywhere. (KATIE DAY WEISBERGER) Getting Here From There In the years since 2001, neither our worst fears nor our highest hopes have been realized. But what passes for normal has exacted a price. By N. R. KLEINFIELD Published: September 8, 2011   A decade now since the tall towers fell in New York and the Pentagon was gashed open and a diverted plane dropped into a field near Shanksville, Pa., people know where they were when they heard the unheard-of. They were a school bus driver grabbing…

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Two fossil skeletons of early humans appear to mark a halfway stage between primitive “ape-men” and our direct ancestors. A year of detailed study has revealed that the skeletons are a hodgepodge of anatomical features: some bones look almost human while others are chimpanzee-like. The two fossils, an adult female and a juvenile male, were discovered in the Malapa cave system near Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2008. Both about 1.2 metres tall, they are unusually complete and well-preserved and date from 1,977,000 years ago. Excavated by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and colleagues, they were given the name Australopithecus sediba. Australopithecines were early hominids that lived between 4…

The Blitz begins. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 7:49, September 7, 2011, from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-blitz-begins. On this day in 1940, 300 German bombers raid London, in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. This bombing “blitzkrieg” (lightning war) would continue until May 1941. After the successful occupation of France, it was only a matter of time before the Germans turned their sights across the Channel to England. Hitler wanted a submissive, neutralized Britain so that he could concentrate on his plans for the East, namely the land invasion of the Soviet Union, without interference. Since June, English vessels in the Channel had been attacked and aerial battles had been fought over…