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...Kennewick Man Caucasian?Thanks to Chatters' mention of Caucasoid features back in 1996, the myth that Kennewick Man might have been European never quite died out. The reconstructed skull confirms that he was not - and Chatters never seriously thought otherwise. "I tried my damnedest to curtail that business about Caucasians in America early," he says. "I'm not talking about today's Caucasians. I'm saying they had 'Caucasoid-like' characteristics. There's a big difference." Says Owsley: "[Kennewick Man] is not North American looking, and he's not tied in to Siberian or Northeast Asian populations. He looks more...
Leverett House Superintendent Paul J. Hegarty sent an e-mail to residents just after 10 a.m. telling them to stay out of the house dining hall as well as the private dining room and junior and senior common rooms, while a crew worked to curtail and clean up after the flood...
...initiative must follow the flighty rhetoric before we can conclude that the oil president has turned over a new, green leaf. No single agenda would addresses as many core U.S. strategic issues as a revamped energy policy. Achieving energy independence could at once un-muddy U.S. foreign policy and curtail potentially irreversible damage to the environment through the use of emission-free renewable, nuclear, or clean coal energy sources. Moreover, investment in the area in the long run would stimulate economic growth by creating new jobs and putting the U.S. back on the cutting edge of energy technology. Unfortunately...
...Council to take meaningful steps when it addresses the matter next month. Tehran now has a few weeks to disclose all aspects of its nuclear program, but it has already denied IAEA requests to review documents and interview sources, and said after Saturday's vote that it would further curtail the nuclear watchdog's inspection powers...
...what is to be done? Harvard should not prevent its students from freely choosing a concentration, nor should it curtail cross-registration opportunities at neighboring schools...