Word: ideas
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...hard to understand his frustration. Paleoanthropologists have only a general idea of how humans first came to the Americas. It happened, most believe, around 12,000 years ago, when Asians began crossing a strip of land that connected present-day Siberia and Alaska, across what is now the Bering Strait. Modern Asians and Native Americans have enough genetic and physical similarities to make a convincing case for the link. But the details of the migration, including how many waves there were, when they happened and the routes by which wanderers subsequently moved east and south over the millennia, are still...
...newfound life. "I ran up all these charges on credit cards thinking that I would not be around to pay them," he says. Not only does he now have to figure out how to retire his debt, but he and his life partner have to readjust to the idea that they may grow old together. "You feel dazed being back in society again," he says. "People don't know what you've been through...
These programs are about to be put to the test, however. Many AIDS patients had become so used to the idea that antiviral treatments don't work that they didn't bother to apply for assistance. But as word of the effectiveness of the new drugs spreads, the current clamor for protease inhibitors is likely to become a roar. Already, the Washington, D.C., ADAP has begun turning down requests for new prescriptions. The increased demand on ADAP funding is expected to cause an estimated $100 million shortfall by March of next year...
This charge would be hilarious if it weren't so grievous. There are about as many Israelis who want to tear down Aqsa and build the Temple as there are Americans who believe they've flown on UFOS. Secular Jews view the idea of rebuilding the Temple as loony; religious Jews, as sacrilegious. (Only God can rebuild the Temple.) Yet the Palestinian Authority echoed this incendiary libel, calling on Palestinians "to express their anger" over this "aggression on al-Aqsa mosque" and "desecration of the holy places...
...window was a notable amenity. Finished in 1209, Old London Bridge boasted not only houses but shops, inns, mills and the decapitated heads of traitors until the 1750s, when the homes were removed because city planners decided that dropping waste into the river wasn't such a swell idea after...