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...alone last Thursday to scatter their mother's ashes around the oceanfront she loved. It was a mistake, and it wrenched their quiet memorial out of control. Despite warnings of rough weather, they chose a point of land well out to sea and only 20 ft. above the ocean. That wasn't enough to protect them from the huge wave that exploded 25 ft. upward and knocked them into the water...
Before CROWN PRINCE FREDERIK, 26, dove into his new duties as a Danish Royal Navy Seal, he and girlfriend KATJA STORKHOLM NIELSEN, 24, splashed in the sun. Lingerie model Nielsen and the unmelancholy Dane lacked for a private paradise on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius; the usually discreet Scandinavian press avidly pursued them. Might Storkholm Nielsen someday be Queen? The official word from the court was that evergreen cliche: They're just good friends...
More pragmatically, a continuing military debacle in the northern Caucasus might not only push the core area of Russia back into a police state but also trigger additional declarations of independence throughout the ethnically and culturally varied Russian Federation. That could plunge the vast area stretching from the Arctic Ocean south to the Black Sea and from the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad clear across Eurasia to the North Pacific into chaos or civil war. At the most extreme, some Western analysts are whispering again a phrase last heard in 1991, when the Soviet Union was breaking up: "Yugoslavia with nukes...
...markers like blood groups, researchers can now determine the exact chemical sequences of long strands of DNA itself. Cavalli-Sforza and his colleagues believe this technology can be used to resolve questions they were ill-equipped to answer, such as the origins of the Negrito tribes in the Indian Ocean, Malayan peninsula and the Philippines. Anthropologists suspect that they are descendants of a wandering people who had once formed an ancient human bridge between Africa and Australia...
...into account, they estimate that what is now India was 1,000 miles or more away from where the Chicxulub antipode was 65 million years ago. And the location antipodal to the Deccan Traps at the time of their formation is now on the floor of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Because the ocean floor moves like a conveyor belt, rising to form ridges and diving back into the earth in a process called subduction, Hagstrum says, "half of the ocean floor has since disappeared" and evidence of an antipodal impact "would be on that half...