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...original excavation site helped clinch the argument for Robert Eckhardt, a developmental geneticist at Pennsylvania State University and a PNAS paper co-author. "If you look throughout the area, there are plenty of populations where the average male is under a meter and a half and females are shorter," he says. "If the people there are short now, so were the people who lived there 20,000 years...
...found - that helped clinch the argument for Robert Eckhardt, a developmental geneticist at Penn State and another author of the PNAS paper. "If you look throughout the area, there are plenty of populations where the average male is under a meter and a half [4'11''] and females are shorter," he says. "If the people there are short now, so were the people who lived there 20,000 years...
...HSBC Group Private Banking, notes that Asians are more "hands-on" in their investment decisions than the bank's European clients?and less willing to wait for returns to be realized. "There is no doubt that the investment time horizon for many of our Asian clients is shorter than it is for our European ones," Bannister says. Asia's wealthy also tend to be younger and to have made their money through their own entrepreneurial efforts, while there is more inherited wealth in old-world Europe...
...been a long career for the polished Wilson, whose first albums appeared in the 1960s, and she faces that truth head-on in such numbers as These Golden Years and I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up. Shorter breathed these days, she can still summon a warm, rich sound and vividly tell a song's story. With a big band behind her in Taking a Chance on Love, she also shows there's plenty of fire in her autumnal mood...
...Number of days George W. Bush has allotted for his summer vacation--the shortest in his presidency and three weeks shorter than last year...