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...Examining 3.8 billion-year-old rocks found in Greenland's Isua (Eskimo for "the farthest we can go") region, Ponnamperuma and other scientists found evidence of compounds called hydrocarbons, which are of major importance in organic chemistry. To discover whether these hydrocarbons had a biological origin, scientists analyzed the ratio of two isotopes, or forms, of carbon. They found that the amount of carbon 12, the isotope most utilized in biological processes, was high in relation to carbon 13. This indicates that the hydrocarbons were produced by photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds...
...Boys are apparently of pre-Olmec origin, sculptured by predecessors of the earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica, who dwelt in a region around Izapa, an ancient priestly center just across the border in Mexico. The gifted artisans did not insert magnetic rocks into the figures, but apparently carved them around natural magnetic poles in the original basaltic boulders. But how did they discover this magnetism? Mesoamerica's oldest known lodestone, or primitive compass, a 2.5-cm (1-in.) bar made of magnetic rock, dates back only to 1000 B.C., a millennium younger than the Fat Boys and some...
...city and its 7,866-officer police department with following "procedures which result in widespread, arbitrary and unreasonable physical abuse or abuse which shocks the conscience." The suit accuses officers of systematically beating handcuffed prisoners, unjustifiably shooting unarmed suspects, "inflicting disproportionate abuse upon black persons and persons of Hispanic origin," and failing to investigate complaints of brutality...
...might assume from the cover illustration that Americans have one manner of dress, one national origin, one race and one gender...
Like many leftist groups, the New Right traces its origin to the turbulent events of May 1968. In reaction to that upheaval of the left, Benoist and a number of similar-minded rightists organized a counterrevolutionary society called GRECE (a French acronym for Research and Study Group on European Civilization). The organization sponsored publications and seminars on such topics as racism, eugenics and Nietzschean ethics...