Word: aviv
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...Islamic terrorist group Hamas, closed the West Bank and Gaza Strip indefinitely--a move that keeps as many as 80,000 Palestinians from their jobs in Israel. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat blasted the move as "economic and social war" on his people and "collective punishment" for Wednesday's Tel Aviv bombing by Hamas. Meanwhile, Hamas today distributed a videotape of a man it said was the suicide attacker who blew up 22 others on a crowded bus; on the tape, Salah Abdel-Rahim Hassan Assawi says he planned the bombing because his brother was killed in the Palestinian intifadeh...
...Hamas terrorist blew himself and 22 others to pieces aboard an Israeli bus in Tel Aviv this morning, dramatically escalating the shadowy war between Israel and the militant Islamic group, the only one opposing the Israel-P.L.O. peace accords. At least 48 people were wounded. The attack -- which prompted worldwide condemnation and forced Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to rush back from London -- was one of the worst in the annals of Middle East fighting. Shortly before 3 a.m. EDT, a 10-kilo bomb eviscerated the crowded No. 5 city bus, just as it had pulled alongside another...
ADOLF EICHMANN: "Contribut((ed)) to" the murder of 6 million Jews during World War II; hanged May 31, 1962; near Tel Aviv, Israel...
...they have the evidence. Researchers from the Institute of Human Origins (IHO) in Berkeley, California, and from Tel Aviv University in Israel report in the current issue of Nature that they have discovered a nearly intact skull from a male A. afarensis who lived about 200,000 years after Lucy -- call him Lucy's Grandson -- along with several arm bones from other males. The new fossils virtually clinch the view that A. afarensis is one species, placing it more firmly than ever at the root of the human family tree. And because the specimens are nearly a million years younger...
Among the experts who agree is Yoel Rak, an anatomist at Tel Aviv University. He believes "Neanderthals have nothing to do with our history." They may well have become extinct, he says, because they were too highly specialized -- probably well adapted to survive the frigid temperatures of Ice Age Europe. But when such conditions change, he notes, "the highly specialized creatures are at a tremendous disadvantage...