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...close contacts with the Turkish military and will set up a "tripartite" group between Turkey, Iraq and the U.S. designed to ensure that "the p.k.k. cannot conduct terrorist activities," according to a U.S. State Department spokesman. Ralston is expected to travel to the region later this month. Exactly what shape the initiative will take is not yet clear, although some kind of military response by Turkish forces seems likely. Even before last week's bombings, pressure was building on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Administration for a more forceful answer to the p.k.k. threat. Scores of Turkish soldiers have...
...Monday," he says. Auckland asserts that London Lite has been three years in the making. Regardless, both papers now have the tricky task of luring advertisers. Deprived of an income from newsstand sales, both free sheets are at the mercy of an advertising market that's "not in great shape," says Alex DeGroote, media analyst at London stockbrokers Panmure Gordon. British papers' share of overall British ad spending is expected to drop to 34% this year, down from 40% 10 years ago. But there are bright spots: free from the heavy reliance on classified ads that the Internet is poaching...
...controversy arises from differing interpretations of a key piece of evidence: a single, almost complete female skull unearthed in the Flores cave. According to the PNAS researchers, the effects of microcephaly are evident in the asymmetric shape of the tiny skull. They claim, too, that the features of the skull cited as evidence that it belonged to a separate species?such as a nearly absent chin?can be found in modern Flores pygmies. The fact that pygmies can still be found living just down the road from the original excavation site helped clinch the argument for Robert Eckhardt, a developmental...
...more than a million second-generation stars, gradually collided, merging to form ever bigger objects that eventually reached the size of the Milky Way. One piece of evidence: the faintest and oldest galaxies found in any great number by the Hubble telescope tend to be small and irregular in shape, not the majestic spirals and huge elliptical galaxies that formed later. Another hint that the merger theory is correct is that the collisions are still going on today. Astronomers can see hundreds of colliding galaxies in their telescopes, and our own Milky Way is still slowly gobbling up the half...
...fate of the Israeli soldier, these sources said. The kidnappers are more extreme in their approach to Israel (Prime Minister Haniyeh is a moderate within Hamas), and they will undoubtedly raise the ante for the release of the 18-year-old corporal, who is said to be in good shape even though his captors have so far refused to offer any proof he is still alive. So far, various mediators, including the Egyptians and the French, have tried to strike a bargain for Shalit's freedom, suggesting that the soldier be swapped for dozens or perhaps hundreds of Palestinians inside...