So there are a lot of South Africans who both hunger for money and are poor at maths and are therefore soft targets for pyramid fraudsters.

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Since the vocal tract consists of soft tissue (and therefore does not fossilise), reconstructing it depends on extrapolating from measurements made at the bases of fossil skulls.

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There's a culture in our society that says remembering these obligations is somehow soft - that we can't show weakness, and so therefore we can't show kindness.

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