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...first few laps of the 25-lap race, Gebrselassie stayed with the lead pack as it glided its way around the graceful Olympic Stadium. By the 5000-m mark, Bekele, Gebrselassie and Ethiopia's third runner, Sileshi Sihine, were 1-2-3. The Ethiopian trio was soon lapping slower runners, even as the younger men seemed to slow the pace to accommodate Gebrselassie. But then he began to struggle. At 7,500 m, he fell back for a lap before coming again, fighting off pain, hoping he could run through...
This wasn't just tool use; it was technology. Explains archaeologist Sileshi Semaw, a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University in Bloomington, who helped find a huge cache of 2.6 million-year-old tools at Gona in the early 1990s: "The Gona hominids [carefully] selected workable raw materials." Since there are no local sources of such materials at Bouri, where the A. garhi fossils were found, the hominids must have carried their tools with them when they traveled there...
...death list included two former Premiers, twelve former provincial governors, 18 generals and a grandson of Haile Selassie. Also executed were Prince Asrate Kassa, 56, who once ranked second in power (after the Emperor), and Ras Mesfin Sileshi, probably the country's second richest man (after the Emperor). Haile Selassie, who had spent two months this year confined to a mud hut at Fourth Army Division headquarters in Addis Ababa, remained under house arrest last week at the Grand Palace...
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