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...Because if people were living in southern Chile 12,500 years ago, they must have crossed over from Asia considerably earlier, and that means they couldn't have used the ice-free inland corridor; it didn't yet exist. "You could walk to Fairbanks," says Meltzer. "It was getting south from Fairbanks that was a problem." Instead, many scientists now believe, the earliest Americans traveled down the Pacific coast - possibly even using boats. The idea has been around for a long time, but few took it seriously before Monte Verde. (See pictures of archaeological discoveries in Afghanistan...
...grandfather would roll over in his grave if I sold our land. He'd haunt me the rest of my life." CLIFTON HERBERT, resident of Cameron Parish, Louisiana, where a proposal was made last week to move an entire string of villages, including Cameron, 25 km to 30 km inland from the Gulf Coast to protect against future hurricanes...
...rapidly in the storm drain on his street. But what worried the high school history teacher more was the debris clogging a larger storm drain nearby, part of a network designed to draw off flooding from Biloxi's coastal areas. If the drains didn't function, Jones knew, then inland neighborhoods like his would be violently deluged. Moved PermanentlyMoved Permanently
...frame their policies [still exist]. Their main preoccupations are stability, the continuation of their rule over China, and economic growth. Without a strong center they fear that they will never become competitive, they will never get rid of their state-owned enterprises, and they could have trouble in their inland provinces that are not doing well. A year before they took power, both Hu and Wen left me with the clear impression that they were going to redress this inequality, as best they could. To do that, they need a Party that responds to their orders, not have powerful barons...
...their speedboats. Half an hour later the Egyptian ship's captain radioed the Semlow to say that he had been captured too. The ships sailed together towards Harardhere, 400 km up the coast from Mogadishu. There, Mahalingam and his chief engineer were taken ashore and were driven 50 km inland, where they met the pirate bosses. "At that stage I realized that all the coastal villages were involved," says Mahalingam...