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...everything" - disappeared around the 16th century, when Dutch traders first came to this tropical island 350 miles east of Bali. It's a common myth with a convenient ending-as soon as witnesses who could have recorded the 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...
Being at Bill's side can seem like standing next to a nuclear blast. Hillary appeared to vanish as he set the audience on fire at Coretta Scott King's funeral in February. When Hillary's moment came, aides noticed something familiar about her ponderous tribute: she was lifting the best line of her husband's 2004 Democratic National Convention speech. She memorialized Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow as having risen from her grief after his assassination to tell the civil rights movement, "Send me." It was a leaden version of the "send me" riff with which Bill...
...reaching a saturation point," says Chris Chute, an analyst with IDC in Framingham, Massachusetts. "Some of the weak vendors below 8% market share will have to reconsider their place." The big picture is one of a shrinking market: IDC predicts that global growth will soon vanish as sales flatten in 2009 at 111.1 million cameras, and then begin to sink in 2010. Things look even soggier through the revenue lens. Retail prices will plummet as they always have, especially as consumer-electronics powerhouses like Samsung, Panasonic and BenQ flex their distribution muscles to grab at market share from the other...
...Wallace no longer hunts spiders: "I've seen too many of 'em." Instead, he's trying to pass on what he's learned before, as he puts it, "I vanish into the big web up in the heavens." As well as giving spider talks at schools, he's busy adding to his self-published books of poetry and memoir. What he says of spiders might also go for his life: "Oh, it's a wonderful study...
...beginning of shortages. Bread is hard to find, for example. And the scratch cards to recharge our mobile phone accounts - already outrageously expensive in peacetime - have jumped in price from about $40 to $50 for 80 minutes of talk-time. Soon, even that connection to the outside world will vanish...