What characterizes this animal as a eutherian, and not another kind of archaic mammal, are the number of molars and premolars in its jaws, the arrangement of cusps on its teeth, and minute characteristics of its arms and wrists, says lead author Zhe-Xi Luo of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The p4 is 4.15 mm long and bears eight cusps on its upper margin and long associated ridges on both sides.
It captures Japan at a crucial time in its history, on the cusp of opening its borders and becoming a world power, and catches Holland as its own colonial prominence is waning.
In this weekend's issue, Sam Sifton provides a recipe for a pork chops dish that used to be served at Relish, a now-shuttered diner in North Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and describes it as "a taste of Brooklyn on the cusp of its move into full food mania".
George (whose family name rhymes with "grow") was a child both of the Wasp ascendancy, then on the cusp of its decline, and of the mass media, print division, then at its apex.
The first reissue announced, predictably, was "Purple Rain," then on the cusp of its thirtieth anniversary.
Russia could be on the cusp of its own Polish-style renaissance, Mr. Hirst said.
Whichever, the result is a taste of Brooklyn on the cusp of its move into full food mania.
And so, on the cusp of its golden years, "Star Trek" swings back toward the present and the familiar.
Much of that is because of Howard's heady, relentless and clutch play, which has No. 8-seeded Butler on the cusp of its second consecutive Final Four.
