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...Like any other scientific innovation, tracing founder lineages through the Y chromosome of men or the mitochondrial DNA of women is open to many questions. Some scientists think, for instance, that even the relatively high number of samples - whether a lock of hair or a dollop of saliva - used in the most recent studies is still too small to give a full picture of genetic variation. Others harbor doubts that the rate of mutation of mitochondrial DNA is constant enough to support conclusions about chronological dating. "Physical anthropology remains the gold standard for dating," says geneticist Mark Stoneking...
...Heck, Keith even proposed, in full-on cutie-pie mode, to his girlfriend, whom we'll call "Asparagus" to protect her identity. (After the ever-dunderheaded Keith blew the Immunity Challenge by dropping his lock in the grass - and followed that by clunking his head on a lantern - she may want to discreetly change her answer...
...Thus was set up what was supposed to be the shocking twist at the end of it all. Face it - we're all sick of Keith and his bumbling and his puppy-dog tears, and once Colby won the old-style Aussie-jailbreak Immunity Challenge by not dropping his lock in the grass, we had to hope it was him. (Rodger, interestingly enough for a 12-year bank president, retained absolutely none of the facts Probst dealt out in the challenge's setup, and basically stumbled around in the night scratching his beard and looking, well, looking like he really...
...match, the Crimson needed only one more singles win to lock up its first Ivy victory. Cornell, however, made the Crimson put in some extra work...
...Michael T. Crane, who was convicted in Kansas of exposing himself to a tanning-salon attendant and sexually assaulting a video store clerk back in 1993, say their client does not fit that profile. State prosecutors, on the other hand, say Crane does pose a threat, and want to lock him up after he completes his sentence...