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Article: Discoverer of Peking Man has last wish to find missing skulls.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- April 15, 1999
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BEIJING _ Everywhere Jia Lanpo turns in his dark, cozy apartment are reminders of his old age. Above the armchair where the paleontologist reads with a magnifying glass is a scroll with the character for long life _ ``shou'' _ stamped in red ink 100 times.
On the other wall hangs a watercolor of a white crane; on the windowsill sits a glass bowl with a tiny, live green turtle, symbols of longevity and gifts on his 90th birthday last Nov. 25.
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His cane is hooked on the back of his chair. In his library, crammed with books and manuscripts in type too small to read, is an eye chart that he squints to see.
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