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...Government figures released last month show Naxal violence claimed 892 people last year, up from 653 in 2004. In November, hundreds of guerrillas overran an entire town, broke into its jail and freed almost 400 prisoners. The Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management says the Naxals now control a corridor stretching hundreds of miles across the central hinterland. Bush, one may surmise, paid little attention to this. He's not alone: new India is just as indifferent. The country's entrepreneurs and middle classes are euphoric about their new prosperity, and rightly so - they are the engine of change that...
...before the present), walking across the dry land that connected modern Russia and Alaska at the end of the last ice age, when sea level was hundreds of feet lower than it is today. From there, the earliest immigrants would have made their way south through an ice-free corridor that geologists know cut through what are now the Yukon and Mackenzie river valleys, then along the eastern flank of the Canadian Rockies to the continental U.S. and on to Latin America...
...Because if people were living in southern Chile 12,500 years ago, they must have crossed over from Asia considerably earlier, and that means they couldn't have used the ice-free inland corridor; it didn't yet exist. "You could walk to Fairbanks," says Meltzer. "It was getting south from Fairbanks that was a problem." Instead, many scientists now believe, the earliest Americans traveled down the Pacific coast - possibly even using boats. The idea has been around for a long time, but few took it seriously before Monte Verde. (See pictures of archaeological discoveries in Afghanistan...
...says. "The thing about kelp forests is they're extremely productive." They not only provide abundant food, from fish, shellfish, seals and otters that thrive there, but they also reduce wave energy, making it easier to navigate offshore waters. By contrast, the inland route along the ice-free corridor would have presented travelers with enormous ecological variability, forcing them to adapt to new conditions and food sources as they traveled...
...said. Swipe access to the gate will be limited to Lowell residents in order to maintain not only its structural stability, but also to maintain the peace and security of the House, Eck said. “We don’t want Lowell House to be a traffic corridor for students from other river houses,” she said. Earlier this fall, Eliot House masters elected to restrict inter-House dining in Eliot closely following the opening of an additional gate. While Eliot House Master Lino Pertile said that while the opening of the gate may have caused...