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The world of paleontology was thrown into an uproar last year when Australian scientists Michael Morwood and Peter Brown claimed they?d found fossils from an entirely new (though presumably extinct) human species, which they dubbed Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. For one thing, the diminutive creatures...
But the Oct. 1 attacks are far more ominous than these determinedly stoic reactions might suggest. What they demonstrate is that something fundamental has changed?that the terror threat, both in Indonesia and beyond, has mutated into a new and more elusive creature that may be far harder to combat...
What will happen during the next pandemic? No one can predict, but even a virus as mild as the 1968 strain would kill many tens of thousands in the U.S. alone. Since 1968, demographic changes have made influenza a greater, not a lesser, threat. Our population now includes more elderly...
Tens of thousands of people have died in a civil war between Indian security forces and Muslim insurgents demanding either independence from India or union with Pakistan. But the earthquake managed to instill new levels of fear. "I'm 86," said Gul Muhammad Butt. "Never in my life have I...
Many Gazans see Israel's unilateral withdrawal last month as evidence that Hamas's campaign of violence against the soldiers and settlers proved more effective than the Palestinian Authority's negotiations. Tens of thousands of Gazans have driven south since the Israelis left to see the places where the settlements...