Little comets of white lights arcing over the city's narrow streets made Vienna feel morelike Christmas than any sleigh-and-reindeer-infested lawn ever could.
In six research papers published in Science, an international team described how the hominids had almost-human hands attached to apelike arms, a rib cage that was narrowlike an ape's at the top but more humanlike lower down, and a spine that likely had the same number of vertebrae as a human.
Some, like Beijing-based designer Mi Qiu, believe China ought to preserve more of its traditional housing forms likethe centuries-old villages and hutong--neighborhoods traversed by narrow, winding alleys.