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...have dimmed Americans' sense that their troops are doing a good job there or diminished Bush's popularity. But what would happen if the trickle of deaths turned into a flood? "It is natural to kidnap American soldiers because they have occupied us," says Tihan Alwan, a village elder standing outside the mosque at Halabsa, a town close to the place from which the two American soldiers were abducted last week. "Not only kidnap," adds his friend Wadah al-Hamdani. "We're going to kill them like sheep." Then he made one of those motions understood in all countries...
White and his colleagues think these hominids are distinctive enough to merit their own subspecies, which the team has dubbed Homo sapiens idaltu. (Idaltu means elder in the Afar language.) But whether or not the nomenclature holds up, says paleoanthropologist G. Philip Rightmire of the State University of New York at Binghamton, "the key point is that they are from the right place at the right time to be, broadly speaking, the ancestor of modern people. It's as near as we're going...
Despite the injuries, the elder McDavitt doubled her goal total from freshman year, an outcome that she never expected...
Dave Merchant had retired from his high school coaching job in Ohio in order to follow the final year of his son’s career. As that final season became the final month and the final month the final weekend, what the elder Merchant witnessed from the stands was no relaxed ride off into the sunset. Instead, as the season descended toward depths that made a mockery of one of the program’s most talented teams in a while, Dave Merchant’s son only burned and raved all the more...
Wilkins, Hendricks and sophomore Hilary Thorndike will now become among the team’s elder stateswomen along with classmate Laura Delano, who had an incomplete freshman season, but returned this year to fill the No. 4 slot...