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...more sampling, but hasn't been able to find funding and has to rely on charging a per sample fee. Now, with the help of a Ph.D. student from Sweden, he is about to begin trying to extract dna from skulls collected in the 1960s and '70s - the oldest he's been able to find here or overseas - stored in twenty 44-gallon drums held by the csiro...
...DIED. ALFRED ANDERSON, 109, Scotland's oldest man and last surviving British veteran of the 1914 Christmas Truce of World War I; in Newtyle, Scotland. As an 18-year-old soldier serving in the Black Watch regiment, he heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front on Christmas Day as British and German soldiers emerged from the trenches to greet each other in no-man's-land; they sang carols, swapped cigarettes and played soccer until fighting resumed that afternoon. In 1998, he was awarded France's Legion of Honor for his war service...
...chaotic; and there are few starred hotels and restaurants. But when you stand on the bridge at the corner of Az-Zubayri and As-Sailah streets and drink in the walled city's gold-tinged beauty, some hardship may seem worthwhile. Sana'a, one of the world's oldest conurbations, lies in the embrace of the Jabal Nugum and Aiban mountain ranges at 2,200 m above sea level?the altitude ensures a gentle climate?and neither natural forces or invaders have leveled its 103 mosques, 14 hammams and 6,000 houses built before the 11th century...
...BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED. By HARRIET, 175, a giant Gal?pagos tortoise and the world's oldest known animal; in Canberra, Australia. While there is some dispute over Harriet's exact age and the claim that she was brought from the Gal?pagos Islands by Charles Darwin, DNA evidence suggests that she was born before the famed naturalist's 1835 expedition, which would make her at least 170. Harriet, who for more than a century was believed to be a male and went by the name Harry, marked the occasion with a snack of pink hibiscus flowers...
...chaotic; and there are few starred hotels and restaurants. But when you stand on the bridge at the corner of Az-Zubayri and As-Sailah Streets and drink in the walled city's gold-tinged beauty, some hardship may seem worthwhile. Sana'a, one of the world's oldest conurbations, lies in the embrace of the Jabal Nugum and Aiban mountain ranges at 2,200 m above sea level - the altitude ensures a gentle climate - and neither natural forces or invaders have leveled its 103 mosques, 14 hammams and 6,000 houses built before the 11th century. Loh and Behold...