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Five...four...three...two...one...see ya!" And Chance McGuire, 25, is airborne off a 650-ft. concrete dam in Northern California. In one second he falls 16 ft., in two seconds 63 ft., and after three seconds and 137 ft. he is flying at 65 m.p.h. He prays that his parachute will open facing away from the dam, that his canopy won't collapse, that his toggles will be handy and that no ill wind will slam him back into the cold concrete. The chute snaps open, the sound ricocheting through the gorge like a gunshot, and McGuire...
...this is happening, but researchers think that identifying risk factors may help solve the mystery. Genetics clearly plays a role: in the Journal study, more than 11,000 of the U.S. cases cited involved white men, while fewer than 650 victims were nonwhites. International data tell the same story: Northern Europeans are particularly vulnerable, and Scandinavians have the highest rate in the world...
Just what the enigmatic body is has been the subject of much buzz in the astronomical community--and deservedly so. Astronomer S. George Djorgovski and his team at the California Institute of Technology first spotted the object in color photographs taken for an ongoing digitized survey of the northern skies. In one of the images, they noticed what seemed to be an oddly colored star in the constellation Serpens (the snake...
...unusually rich trove of fossils has been found at two sites in northern Spain's Atapuerca mountains. One, known as Gran Dolina, has yielded 800,000-year-old hominids that Spanish researchers believe are a new species, perhaps the most recent common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals. Named Homo antecessor (Latin for explorer or pioneer), they had a primitive jaw and prominent brow ridges but a projecting face, sunken cheekbones and tooth development similar to that of modern humans...
Disappointment reigned in Britain, northern France and Germany, where eclipse seekers tried in vain to outdrive cloud cover...