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...Palestinian security sources close to the negotiators told TIME that the two Fox Newsmen - reporter Steve Centanni, 60, from Washington, D.C., and New Zealand cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36 - were kidnapped from Gaza to embarrass Haniyeh's government. The militants, who earlier identified themselves as members of the previously unknown Holy Jihad Brigades, were enraged with fellow Hamas militants because they too had joined in the daring capture on June 25th of Corp. Shalit, in which Palestinian gunmen tunneled under a wall and attacked an Israeli army post. But according to these security sources, the militant groups fell out after Hamas...
...Kentucky. The only leader the state party has had for more than a decade is McConnell, who telegraphed the 1994 national Republican rout in his home state. In a special election that spring, McConnell convinced Newt Gingrich to throw the national party's weight behind Ron Lewis, an unknown Christian bookstore owner, who stunned bluegrass politicos by taking the U.S. House seat held for 41 years by Democrat Bill Natcher. (Natcher had died while in office, creating an open seat, which Lewis won by beating a long-time Democratic leader of the State Senate...
...creature's existence come on the scene, the ebu gogo suddenly vanish. But then a team of researchers found the 18,000-year-old bones of 3.5-ft-tall people with grapefruit-sized brains and announced in Nature two years ago that they were the remains of a previously unknown, hobbit-like species of human: Homo floresiensis. The finding made the cover of National Geographic and threatened to upend the history of human evolution. It seemed for a moment as if any legend could be true...
...perhaps too good to be true. Doubts were raised from the start about whether the findings really represented an unknown branch on the human family tree, but none of the opponents had a chance to base their critiques from first-hand examinations of the Flores bones. That changed in a paper published in the current issue of the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). A team of researchers from the U.S., Indonesia and Australia report on their own investigation of the Flores bones and conclude that the so-called hobbit isn't a separate species, but just...
...Washington hasn't resumed the food aid it suspended last year. Pyongyang remains equally defiant and shows no signs of returning to talks aimed at ending its nuclear program. Unknown millions of North Koreans might be struggling to survive, but Kim Jong Il is still sitting pretty...