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...single strike breaks the rock in two, revealing a mass of bone in each piece. Creaser gazes at what he recognizes to be the jaws of a largish animal, one that perished some 24 million years ago. But what kind of animal? The others gather around, including Archer, who's one of Australia's best at classifying - all but instantly - what would look to most people like generic bone. "The finest specimen of a marsupial lion jaw that's ever been found," he declares. It seems to have belonged, he explains later, to a previously unknown, intermediate species of this...
...OPEC, which elected him secretary-general in 2001. PDVSA has also supplied Chavez ally Fidel Castro more than 54,000 bbl. a day on favorable finance terms. The politicized atmosphere at PDVSA--many workers say devotion to the Chavez revolution is a job requirement--helped provoke the 2002 strike. Says Ignacio Layrisse, who was afterward fired as production manager: "Ali Rodriguez may be a smart and capable man, but he's just a has-been lefty carrying out Chavez's plans to turn PDVSA into a mediocre state-run company...
...originate from the Dutch colonies of the Caribbean and southeast Asia, while seven of the England squad have roots in Britain's former colonies. But while the colonial era may explain the makeup of those national teams, more contemporary patterns of migration are at work in Sweden, whose strike force consists of the half-Cabo Verdian Henrik Larsson, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whose origins are Bosnian-Croat...
That potential to be outshone by his No. 2 is one reason Kerry went to such lengths to assure that the process of selecting him was smooth and certain. It was a secret until the end, the details held fast and then leaked after the fact to strike just the right chord of total control. Kerry positioned himself as the maximum leader, the disciplined boss of a party known for chaos, and signaled that he could run a tight ship, make a crisp decision and then manage the moment. So well executed an exercise it turned out to be that...
...rebels. School Inferno INDIA Police arrested five people in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, including the owner of a private school, on suspicion of negligence after at least 88 children died and dozens more suffered serious burns in a fire that gutted the school building. A Striking Difference PERU Labor unions claimed wide support for a 24-hour national strike to protest President Alejandro Toledo's free-market economic policies, while the government said that most employees had reported for work. Opinion polls show Toledo 's approval rating at less than 10%. MEANWHILE IN GERMANY ... Get Your...