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...Fabled Biblical Ark (HarperOne) along with a History Channel special scheduled for March 2 would appear to risk a fine academic reputation on what might be called a shaggy Ark story. But the professor has been right before, and his Ark fixation stems from his greatest coup. In the 1980s Parfitt lived with a Southern African clan called the Lemba, who claimed to be a lost tribe of Israel. Colleagues laughed at him for backing the claim; in 1999, a genetic marker specific to descendents of Judaism's Temple priests (cohens) was found to appear as frequently among the Lemba...
...speed, unless the turnover rate of its governments counts. By showcasing the equipment used by Carlo Rubbia, the exhibition provides an interesting - though less than pertinent - reminder that Italy has produced a Nobel-winning particle physicist. And the bulky fax machines, computers and cell phones featured from the 1980s seem largely irrelevant...
...series of economic shocks that began in the late 1970s and continue through today, as the state's once formidable steel, automobile and rubber products sectors have seen plant after plant close down, move overseas and not return. Ohio was in Republican hands for much of the 1980s and 1990s; it lacks the broad vein of white, affluent liberals that have helped lift Obama to victories in Connecticut or Maryland; in Ohio, affluent whites tend to be Republican. In 2006, the state elected its first Democratic governor, Ted Strickland, in a generation. Most polls, at the present time, show Clinton...
While the Mexican crime families do not have a history of using bombs, explosive devices used to be a favored tactic of their associates in Colombia. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Medellin cartel responded to a government crackdown with bombs on street corners, cars and even one passenger jet, killing hundreds. Colombian gangsters have long been selling cocaine to the Mexican cartels, who smuggle it into the United States. "The cartels could be turning to this Colombian tactic of using terror to pressure the government to back off," said Mexican drug expert Jorge Chabat. "They may be trying...
DIED His deadly alleged exploits--a 1985 hijacking that led to the death of a U.S. Navy diver; attacks that killed 200 Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s; the 1992 bombing of Israel's embassy in Argentina--put him on the FBI's most-wanted list. After a car bombing in Damascus, officials announced that Hizballah's Imad Mughniyah had been killed. The incident, for which Hizballah blamed Israel (who denied involvement), was a hefty blow to the militant group--it was the first killing of a top leader since 1992. Mughniyah was believed...