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...mitochondria - cell organelles whose genetic makeup is determined by the mother alone - of all native Europeans except the Sami people of Northern Scandinavia reveal descent from one of what Sykes grandly calls "The Seven Daughters of Eve" (the title, incidentally, of his upcoming book to be published in June). He contends that these ancient matriarchs migrated to Europe from Africa via the Middle East or Asia as long as 50,000 years ago, and he has even assigned evocatively mythical names to each one: Ursula, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine, Xenia and Jasmine. He has also delineated rough population histories...
With Adil Salman's sons, the tanks made no mistake. Salman picks through the destruction of the old stone house near Nablus where his sons Nahid and Sami died last month. Adil is 67. He stoops shakily to pick through the rubble around the shallow indentation in the ground, a yard across, where the tank shell landed. Rearranging his white kaffiyeh with one hand, he reaches out for a piece of silvery metal. It is a foot long with 10 parallel grooves near one end, part of the shell that killed his sons. Nahid and Sami Salman were Tanzim gunmen...
NATO leaders are publicly asking Milosevic to show restraint and privately warning Albanian leaders to use their influence to stop the insurgency. Last month nato Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark met with Sami Lushtaku and other former K.L.A. leaders. Says Lushtaku: "He looked me straight in the eyes and said, 'Back off. Control your people.'" The nightmare scenario for nato is a massacre by Serb police, a flood of refugees and attendant publicity that would be hard for nato to ignore. Then Presevo really could become Kosovo...
...Sami S. Siddiqui, a University of Rochester graduate who attended the event, said that while Khokar was able to speak more freely in an academic environment than in a political one, there were still cultural issues that he left unaddressed...
...such spirit as to make it equally life-affirming. The epic seven-minute-and-forty-seven-second "747" was a fitting song to close on. Markus Mustonen, the drummer, began the song by quietly patting away with brushes; by the end, he was driving an urgent rhythm with drumsticks. Sami Sirvio, the lead guitarist, broke a string about five minutes into "747," but his relentless playing never skipped a beat...