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...perhaps too good to be true. Doubts were raised from the start about whether the findings really represented an unknown branch on the human family tree, but none of the opponents had a chance to base their critiques from first-hand examinations of the Flores bones. That changed in a paper published in the current issue of the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). A team of researchers from the U.S., Indonesia and Australia report on their own investigation of the Flores bones and conclude that the so-called hobbit isn't a separate species, but just...
...doesn't keep long in a tropical environment. What's certain is that the scientific stakes are extremely high: if the Flores find is really a separate species, then the history of human evolution will have to be rewritten. Instead of automatically evolving toward bigger brains, at least one branch of humanity would seem to have evolved in reverse. Though each side is utterly convinced - as Eckhardt puts it: "We will be substantially right, and they will be substantially wrong," - the issue will probably be fought in open scientific combat for some time. And one gets the sense that...
...hand. And refreshingly down-to-earth. While taking a break from recording in Sydney earlier this year, Barton sipped chai tea while reminiscing about his newfound love of Guinness-drinking in Ireland. "Sweet like nectar," he says. The same could be said of the sublime sounds from this new branch of an old musical tree...
...than half (56%) said they do not think parts of New Orleans that might flood again should be rebuilt. Currently, that means almost all of New Orleans. The locals hope, needless to say, that the feds will kick in enough money to improve their odds. "Luck," as baseball executive Branch Rickey once said, "is the residue of design...
...Still, the issue of illegal immigration - and the emergency of the waterbound Africa-Europe journey - is a problem that requires a broader and longer vision. Ruggiero Giuliani, medical coordinator for Italy's branch of M?decins Sans Fronti?res, the only NGO operating on Lampedusa, says that push-and-pull pressures mean that people will continue to risk their lives for a shot at a living wage. "The migratory flow depends on the conditions of the country of origin, the countries of transit, and the country of destination," he says. "There is extreme poverty at one end, and a demand for manpower...