Word: ostrich
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SOUTHERN AFRICA'S ARTISTIC RECORD is much sparser. Scientists have unearthed a pendant made from a seashell that may be more than 40,000 years old, carved bones and beads made from ostrich eggshells that probably date from around 27,000 B.P., and paintings on slabs of rock in a Namibian cave that may be nearly as old. But like Australia's Aborigines, southern Africa's indigenous people carried on their rock-art tradition into modern times, confusing anthropologists' tasks considerably...
...their ostrich-sized "nest eggs...
...embryo, the first ever discovered, fossilized just as it was about to hatch during the Cretaceous period, more than 70 million years ago. The embryo and its potato-size egg, found in a rocky nest along with at least eight other eggs, are from a kind of oviraptor, an ostrich-size cousin of both tyrannosaurs and velociraptors. And several aspects of the discovery make the parallels between dinosaurs and birds stronger than ever...
...Tuesday consensus aimed at pleasing conservative critics. Some countries are now losing patience with the Pope's diehard stance, which has made allies of the Vatican and Islamic fundamentalists. Said a delegate from Ghana: "I'm a Catholic, but I think the Vatican is behaving just like the proverbial ostrich...
...federal appeals court ruled the armed forces can't bar homosexuals based solely on their statements that they are gay -- a move that could chip away at the Clinton Administration's ostrich-like "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge's reinstatement of Petty Officer Keith Meinhold, who had been denied re-enlistment after disclosing his homosexuality on television.Instead, only a statement that shows a "concrete, fixed or expressed desire to engage in homosexual acts despite their being prohibited" should be grounds for involuntary discharge. The ruling stopped short...