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...foragers who had hunkered down during the glacial age. "This research changes the whole debate about Europe, shifts it back in time from the Neolithic era of farming to the Paleolithic era of hunter-gatherers," says Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of mitochondrial DNA analysis. "There's now a much clearer sense that the genes we carry lived through the Ice Age, that our ancestors were hunting bison and reindeer with essentially the same genetic makeup we have today...
...those people looking for a slightly different film experience, History Lessons by Barbara Hammer will certainly fit the bill. Far from being a mushy love story, History Lessons is instead a documentary, of sorts. Barbara Hammer (Tender Fictions, Nitrate Kisses), a pioneer in the lesbian film industry who is widely acclaimed for her over 70 films and videos, delves deeply into the history of lesbianism, providing a somewhat irreverent, comical and often very intense look at the portrayal of lesbianism from the first days of cinema. Beware these history lessons...
...White's office has even talked with some who were not so lucky in Clinton's final days, including Michael Milken, the junk-bond pioneer of the high-flying '80s. Milken's patron on the pardon front was Ron Burkle, a generous Democratic donor, but as soon as it became known that Milken, who served nearly two years in prison and paid more than $1 billion in connection with his conviction on six counts of securities fraud, was on the list of potential clemency recipients, loud protests from securities regulators and others apparently doomed the effort. White is presumably trying...
...Phillips, right, who died of heart failure, had overcome years of drug and alcohol abuse. DIED. DAVID MCTAGGART, 69, who co-founded the environmental pressure group Greenpeace and built it into a worldwide movement, killed in a car crash; in Castiglione del Lago, Italy. DIED. WILLIAM HANNA, 90, animation pioneer whose 50-year partnership with Joseph Barbera produced such well-loved cartoons as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and The Flintstones and won the pair seven Oscars; in Hollywood. DIED. GORDON BROWN, 53, Scottish rugby forward who won 30 caps and played in some of the British Lions' most memorable...
...George Pachikov, a well-known Russian tech pioneer, has moved the headquarters of his company, ParallelGraphics (www.parallelgraphics.com), to Ireland and hired a local as ceo. The company traces its origins to 1988 and a Russian software start-up called Paragraph. It was among the first to develop handwriting recognition and digital ink technologies, which were licensed by Apple for the Newton and are now used in many new-generation personal digital assistants. Briefly owned by Silicon Graphics, the 3-D business was bought back by Pachikov and relaunched as ParallelGraphics, now one of the top 10 Russian software exporters...