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...with this hypothesis - the skull is a lone example and does not contain the correct matter for carbon-dating - anthropologists around the world agree that decisive evidence of the skull's geographic ancestry will be produced by testing its DNA and comparing it to that of other Negroid peoples, such as Australian aborigines and Africans. The remains of the woman who's spawning the debate, nicknamed Luzia, were found in 1975 outside Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third largest city, and were in storage in a Rio museum for a quarter of a century. That sound you hear is the typing...
...Cheryl is, I think, the third keeper in the nation in terms of goals let up for minutes played," Moore said. "I have all the confidence in the world in our defense, and not many shots are going to get by. But if they do, Cheryl will be able to handle them...
...American foreign policy there's not always a focus on the long-term approach," he said. "The problem with politics is that people want to make a slogan that appeals to a certain section of society. We in the third world have gotten used to this, so we just sit back, wait for the dust to settle, and then begin again...
Ever since Admiral Peary made his third and finally successful journey to the North Pole 90 years ago, there have been dreamers who saw themselves skiing to the top of the earth. Very few have done so, of course, because it's hard going--and because only in the past decade have travel companies offered would-be Arctic explorers the kind of expedition they could manage. The company that pioneered such trips, Northwest Passage, is planning its fifth trek to the geographic North Pole starting in early February with a six-day training session on Baffin Island. In April...
...last won baseball's world championship fourscore and one years ago, in 1918, and as baseball folk like to say, you can look it up. They did not win in 1919 and, though they came so very close, they did not win in 1946, '48, '49, '67, '72, '75, '78, '86, '88 and, in this decade, 1990, '95, '96 and '98. This record can be seen as one of remarkable consistency or futility ? your pick ? but it's certainly one that marks the Red Sox as a companionable second or third banana. They've been so often near, yet always...