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...settlers didn't want. Men, women and children were held at the infamous Macquarie Harbour jail before being exiled for life to a small island. That this was done to British subjects was, says Boyce, "one of the great crimes of the British Empire." Yet a visiting Charles Darwin echoed a common view when he mused in 1836 that Tasmania "enjoys the great advantage of being free from a native population...
...fatal shooting of East Timor President José Ramos-Horta on Feb. 11 shocked average East Timorese as well as the foreign governments that midwifed the birth of the new nation. Ramos-Horta needed eight liters of blood to stabilize his condition before being airlifted to a hospital in Darwin, Australia, where he is in serious, but stable, condition...
...been invited into town for a meeting when he was attacked, and that Ramos-Horta was caught in the ensuing gunfight. Whatever the truth, the incident left Ramos-Horta with gunshot wounds to the stomach and back; he is in a stable but serious condition in Australia's Royal Darwin Hospital, where surgeons last night removed all but one of the high-velocity bullet fragments from his body...
...internationally and from a majority of his people. But his legacy of peace was shattered on Monday morning, when renegade East Timorese soldiers attacked his home on the outskirts of the capital, Dili, shooting Ramos-Horta at least twice in the torso. The East Timorese president was airlifted to Darwin, Australia, where hospital staff have characterized his situation as serious but stable. The leader of the rebel soldiers, Alfredo Reinado, was killed in a shoot-out with presidential security guards, according to an army spokesman. The spokesman confirmed that shots had also been fired at a car carrying Prime Minister...
Over the past 137 years, scientists have learned again and again the value of Darwin's perspective. One of the best ways to appreciate what it means to be human is to learn about how human abilities came to be. No other species uses full-blown language, for example. But animal communication is surprisingly complex. Primates in particular are able to do a lot of the mental tasks that are essential to grasping language. Regions of the brain once considered language centers have been discovered in monkeys; instead of handling language, they control mouth movements. Geneticists in recent years have...