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...older than we are. It almost certainly dates from very near that crucial moment in prehistory when hominids began to tread an evolutionary path that diverged from that of chimps, our closest living relatives. Even more surprising, this ancient hominid was not discovered anywhere near the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where all the record setters of the past three decades have been found. Instead, it turned up in the sub-Saharan Sahel region of Chad, more than 1,500 miles to the west, forcing a rethinking of the conventional wisdom about where humans arose...
...linking the high banks with an improbably long arch of white stone more than 20 m high. One traveler likened the bridge to a bow stretched toward heaven, another to a rainbow - an impression shared by holidaymakers into the modern era because of the pink light that bathes the valley in summer. Turkish builders overseeing the construction will use 140 of the original stones. The remaining 1,088 have been cut from the same quarry that Ottoman builders used in the 16th century. These massive limestone blocks, engineers say, are unique to the region in their combination of porousness...
...music close to his own tastes--funk, hip-hop and R. and B.--but other DJs caught on and started copying his style. Now he looks for the stuff they pass over. In 2000 he struck an obscurantist's mother lode. His local record shop, Village Music in Mill Valley, Calif., bought the entire stock of a defunct 1980s dance-music store at an auction. Davis went mad flipping through 10,000 records--mostly rare new wave European singles--that had been frozen in a storage locker for the past decade. "DJ Shadow is my best customer," says Village Music...
...case against someone that would stand up in court. Maybe Bush could reclassify these suspects as "enemy combatants." That way, they could be taken into custody by the military, deprived of sleep and food, and interrogated endlessly, all without interference from judges and lawyers. EDWARD S. JIMISON Castro Valley, Calif...
...means an overnight train to the Manchurian sprawl of Shenyang, then another eastward to the industrial city of Tonghua, followed by a gut-churning hour in a taxi via the hairpin turns and dense forests of the precipitous peaks of the Changbai range. Simply reaching Ji'an's narrow valley sanctuary along the Yalu River in one piece feels like a miracle...