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...team eventually found 11 specimens--from at least five different individuals--in a cluster of sites, including Haile-Selassie's partial lower jaw with associated teeth, several hand and foot bones, and pieces of three arm bones and a collarbone. Luckily, the fossils were trapped in sediments that were sandwiched between layers of volcanic ash, whose age can be accurately gauged by a technique known as argon-argon dating. (This layering is still visible in places that have not been so heavily eroded, enabling the scientists to trace the area's geologic history.) The verdict, confirmed by a second dating...
...pool has a young'un been so destined for a date with trouble. Iler, 16, joined the fabled ranks of Barrymore, Danny Bonaduce and the cast of Diff'rent Strokes when he and three associates were arrested last week. New York City police called it a case of strong-arm robbery, in which two teen victims were relieved of $40. Iler pleaded not guilty to two charges of second-degree robbery and was released on $2,500 bond. Police said Iler had a bag of marijuana and a bong in his pocket at the time of his arrest. HBO released...
SHARKS Reported attacks were at a 42-year global high last year. Just last week an eight-year-old Florida boy had an arm torn off by a bull shark...
...Denmark. Danish firms are supplying 60% of the wind turbines being installed in the fast-growing U.S. market, which this year alone will nearly double the total installed base of wind power. The only American wind firm with the heft to compete with the large European companies is an arm of the energy giant Enron, based in Houston...
...black box as law. It has ruled that disabled children are entitled to be compensated if their mothers were not given a chance to abort the defective fetus. It has decided in favor of the families of three children-one with a malformed spine, two born with only one arm-whose lawyers argued that if doctors had detected the fetuses' disabilities, they would have had the pregnancies terminated...