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...body plan that looks more ancient than that. "It's not identical to Australopithecus," Jungers says, "but it resembles it in limb proportions, the shape of the bony pelvis, the hands." Adds paleoanthropologist Donald Johansen, who discovered the Australopithecus Lucy: "It is a possibility they got out of Africa earlier than we ever thought. If they were isolated on an island and didn't have gene flow from other populations, it would make sense that they retained ancient features like small stature and small heads...
...guns at all. Clinton decided he could not risk sending them ashore and ordered the Harlan County to pull up anchor and steam away. At U.S. request, the U.N. Security Council voted to reimpose as of midnight Monday an embargo on oil and arms shipments to Haiti. An earlier embargo had pushed the Haitian military leaders into agreeing to let Aristide resume power on Oct. 30. But this time they answered with murder -- of Guy Malary, Justice Minister in the transitional government that was to pave the way for Aristide's return. Its timing made the assassination almost a personal...
...think all your folders are red? Just kidding. Well, at least not all of us. 2. How’s the dating scene? Let me know when you find one. Wait a minute, what’s the name of that pre-frosh guy you were with earlier? 3. Is Harvard a lot of work? I’m working on my 1,000,000th response paper as we speak. What do you think? And you know what the worst part of all of this is? As hard as I may try to scare the little ones away, somehow they...
...called “one of the worst human rights crises in the world”—the situation facing North Koreans fleeing their country. Kim said that he first learned about the human rights issues in the North Korean border region during a vacation to China earlier in 2003. “I asked my assistant to clear my calendar for two weeks so I could travel to China,” he said. “I wanted to try some authentic Chinese food.” While in China, Kim met a North Korean refugee...
...weeks earlier, however, Attorney General Eric Holder told CBS News that his agency was still reviewing the Bush Administration's use of state secrets as an argument to prevent litigation. He said that the Justice Department was considering reversing the citing of state secrets in one of the three cases that had been reviewed so far, though he did not describe which case. Last Wednesday, during a speech at West Point, Holder strongly condemned the behavior of the Bush Administration. "We must once again chart a course rooted in the rule of law and grounded in both the powers...