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...prehuman "hobbit," in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. The origin of the species and the route it took to Flores have been much discussed since then. Earlier this month, researchers presented work at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, in Chicago, suggesting that H. floresiensis may have left Africa a full million years earlier than any other hominids were thought to have ventured out from the home continent. (Read "The Riddle of the Hobbit...
...Year’s Day in 2003, Mike Kim left his comfortable job as a financial planner in Chicago and traveled to the border between North Korea and China—a place where thousands of North Koreans go to flee oppression and famine suffered under a closed communist government. He had no immediate plans to return. The eventual author of “Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country”—a book that documents his time trafficking North Korean refugees through a 6,000-mile modern...
...profligate spending, then what connection is there to the Boston Tea Party at all? Furthermore, according to Karl Rove, “If [the tea party movement] has a father it is CNBC’s Rick Santelli, who called for holding a tea party in Chicago on July 4.” Yet Santelli was condemning homeowner bailouts—neither direct taxes nor spending...
...hold. Pets even get access to a special arrival lounge. Sadly, you can't fly with your baby; the aircraft are for animals only. Which begs the question, how is that different from every other airline you'd normally fly? Service starts between select cities - New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Los Angeles - on July 14. Fares start...
...Beantown for Beans. The Southwest airline has announced service to Boston beginning August 16, so you can still squeeze out some cheap fares for the last two weeks of summer. The airline will start with 10 daily flights from Logan's Terminal E: five to Chicago Midway and five to Baltimore/Washington International...