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...Siberia?Genetics also points to an original homeland for the first Americans - or at least it does to some researchers. "Skeletal remains are very rare, but the genetic evidence suggests they came from the Lake Baikal region" of Russia, says anthropologist Ted Goebel of the University of Nevada at Reno, who has worked extensively in that part of southern Siberia. "There is a rich archaeological record there," he says, "beginning about 40,000 years ago." Based on what he and Russian colleagues have found, Goebel speculates that there were two northward migratory pulses, the first between...
...Love (HBO, Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) checks his calls. He has 16 messages. He's got three wives, three mortgages and seven kids. His father (Bruce Dern) suspects Bill's mother of poisoning him. Bill is opening a new branch of his Salt Lake City, Utah, hardware store, and his shady, polygamist-patriarch father-in-law Roman (Harry Dean Stanton) is demanding a cut. Then there's the matter of, er, keeping up with three wives. Pharmaceutical assistance is involved...
...expect of a world-class athlete. Shy and laid back, the speedskating superstar doesn't carry herself off-ice like the fiery locomotive that she becomes when she's racing. Klassen had the engine going full bore in Torino, taking five medals, which, added to a bronze from Salt Lake City, make her the winningest Canadian Olympian ever. Although a favorite to win multiple medals heading into Torino, her jittery performance in the 3,000-m event during the Games' first week got the doubters going. In the 3,000 m, Klassen overreacted to Dutch skater Ireen Wust's blazing...
...Nobody could say that about Canada's 24-medal total (7 gold, 10 silver, 7 bronze). That bested the previous record of 17 at Salt Lake City in 2002. But just off the podium, it gets even more interesting. Canadians posted 12 fourth-place finishes, results that coaches say point to a team that is on the way up again in Alpine skiing, and one that is gaining strength in the events added in the past 20 years. It's the reason the normally commitment-shy Canadian Olympic Committee has hatched a plan called Own the Podium 2010. The goal...
...Logic says Canada should do well at events on ice or snow. Since the Calgary Games of 1988, Canada's medal tally has grown steadily, as has its team. (Canada sent a record 196 athletes to Torino, 39 more than went to Salt Lake City in 2002.) The number of medals up for grabs has also swelled: Calgary played host to 46 events; Torino had 84. Of the six new events in 2006, Canada medaled in three: Maelle Ricker's bronze in snowboard cross and silvers in men's and women's speedskating team pursuit...