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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study of alcohol?s affect on the ol? ticker says that when it comes to reaping the benefits of moderate drinking, any booze will do. The study, from researchers at Harvard Medical School and published in the American Heart Association's journal, Circulation, is the largest to date: 21,537 men over a 12-year period. It follows much debate about the so-called French Paradox, the contention that the consumption of red wine - thought to contain anti-fat ingredients other than those found in alcohol - was responsible for relatively low rates of heart disease among the French, whose diets...
Earliest known fossils date to about 100,000 years ago. Other fossils from Africa that are between about 1 million and 100,000 years old probably include ancestors of modern humans
Exactly when and how it happened is unclear. The oldest Neanderthal fossils in hand date only to 200,000 B.P., and the oldest Homo sapiens to about 100,000. But some recent discoveries may help answer those questions. A 1 million-year-old cranium from Buia, Eritrea, for example, has characteristics of both H. erectus and H. sapiens. And what Asfaw and his colleagues call a "spectacular" partial cranium of the same age from Ethiopia should help as well when it's formally unveiled...
...COMMENT] To date, found only in eastern Africa. Most famous example is the 3.2 million-year-old partial skeleton known as Lucy...
...never miss a call again. The phone actually rings while you're surfing away. If you choose to answer, you have seven seconds to take a message and get back to your e-mail. But what if the call is from a cute guy asking you out for a date? Then keep talking, and let the modem silently disconnect your online session. Phew...