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...part, Tutu was delighted at some of the unexpected discoveries from his genes. He is Bantu, a traditionally agricultural people, and was included in the study to represent their ancestry. But his genome revealed that he is also maternally related to the San, a hunter-gatherer population that has traditionally lived around the Kalahari Desert. "The fact that the test found that I am related to these wise people who paint rocks makes me feel very privileged and blessed," he told...
...easier with the opening of the Nelson Mandela Bridge over a number of railway tracks. The mainstay of the district remains Market Theatre, which defied apartheid laws against mixed audiences long before democracy arrived. A police report in 1977 noted with distaste that "the White, Indian, Coloured and Bantu spectators watch the same performances and pay the same ticket price." These days, patrons pay anywhere from $5 to $17 to take in local plays like Bergville Stories (until April 26), which tells, a cappella, of an early battle against apartheid, and dance shows such as Tapsula (April 12 to June...
...from toy retailer FAO Schwarz--which has put a downloadable IM link to customer service on its website--to the U.S. Navy, which uses the Sametime system to connect a 16-ship battle group in the Atlantic Fleet. Closer to home, long-distance provider Sprint uses software designed by Bantu Inc. to enable employees to chat while watching online PowerPoint displays. Messages can also be sent and received by a variety of wireless devices, including cellular phones...
McCormack himself can say "hello" in over 65 different languages, including Bantu, Inuit and Urdu...
Scientists have found the earliest known appearance of HIV in humans--in the blood sample of a Bantu man from Central Africa who died in 1959. The study, co-authored by Dr. David Ho and to be published in this week's Nature, holds little promise for the HIV sufferer of today. But its findings may shed important light on the virus' murky origins...