12,000 Year old discovery in Turkey could shake up theory of human development
April 17, 2008
As a child, Klaus Schmidt used to grub around in caves in his native Germany in the hope of finding prehistoric paintings. Thirty years later, representing the German Archaeological Institute, he found something infinitely more important — a temple complex almost twice as old as anything comparable on the planet.
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Rare Mayan Textiles suggest they used advanced techniques
April 17, 2008
Very few textiles from the Mayan culture have survived, so the treasure trove of fabrics excavated from a tomb at the Copán ruins in Honduras since the 1990s has generated considerable excitement.
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U.S. Lawmakers Invested in Iraq, Afghanistan Wars
April 15, 2008
Members of Congress invested nearly 196 million dollars of their own money in companies that receive hundreds of millions of dollars a day from Pentagon contracts to provide goods and services to U.S. armed forces, say nonpartisan watchdog groups.
David Petraeus, the top U.S. general in Iraq, is to brief the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees on Tuesday and Wednesday. The latest findings are unlikely to have a significant impact on this week’s proceedings but could stoke anti-incumbent sentiment in this year of presidential and legislative elections.
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600 Quakes In Ten Days Off Oregon Coast
April 12, 2008
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off the central Oregon Coast.
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NASA Scientist: Big Oil is Hiding a “Planet in Crisis”
April 9, 2008
Global warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the public, NASA’s top climate scientist says.
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Peak oil the catalyst for WW3
April 7, 2008
If one accepts that climate change could be catastrophic for many ecosystems, including the multiple ones humans inhabit, what could possibly be considered more critical, more demanding of our full attention, right now?
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