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...scientists. A new analysis of the Cosquer cave on the French Riviera, for example, has shown that painted handprints on the walls date to 27,000 B.P., while images of horses and other animals came some 9,000 years later. Rather than being decorated in a single, prolonged burst of creativity, the cavern was painted over scores of centuries, quite possibly by artists who had no connection of any kind with one another, unlike Aborigines, whose culture has direct links to the distant past...
...unseasonable melting of Alpine snows to surcharge waterways funneling into the Low Countries. Though the Dutch remained mostly dry, the largest evacuation ever mobilized in the Netherlands cleared 250,000 people from their homes in Gelderland and Limburg, two southern provinces where 550 km of dikes were straining to burst at critically weak points. A placid landscape of willows and windmills threatened abruptly to become Apocalypse Now: if the dikes go, the lives and savings of tens of thousands of people would be swept away. Almost all the embankments were holding as last week ended, but a red alert persisted...
...rails turned in a moment into a deflated souffle. Much of the ground fell by a meter, judging by one grating that hung skewered atop a drain pipe high above the sunken surface. Worst of all, the groundslip destroyed the thick concrete perimeter wall, which rolled 45 and burst open a gap into the freight yards. Dozens of tractor-trailer trucks and shipping containers slid into the sea-washed breach. Behind the quay wall, strains tore apart the rails carrying dozens of four-legged cranes, behemoths that cost $10 million apiece. Some toppled over, and others were on their...
...Dutch army troops were frantically trying to reinforce below-sea-level dikes in the southeastern part of the country.The danger: more than 300 miles of ancient, water-soaked dikes have been severely weakened by flooded rivers. As the waters recede, sections of the dikes may begin to shift -- even burst. More than a quarter-million Dutch have already fled, fearing the worst flood disaster since 1953, when 1,800 people died. "There's still a massive evacuation underway, and large chunks of Holland are completely deserted," says TIME Amsterdam reporter James Geary...
...Netherlands today after continued flooding submerged towns and villages, while cars and trucks jammed the water-logged highways. Even worse, crisis management experts are warning that the country's 300-mile network of dikes, which dates to the Middle Ages, is "soaked to the limit" and could burst. The Finance Ministry put the price tag for a "worst-case scenario" at $46 billion...