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Rapid Radiation, Borrowing and Dialect Continua in the Bantu Languages 10 Dec 2007 | 08:50 am
Rapid Radiation, Borrowing and Dialect Continua in the Bantu Languages Clare J. Holden & Russell D. Gray PDF WITH ILLUSTRATIONS http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/publications/index.php?pub=Holden_a...
10,000 Wildebeest Drown in Migration "Pileup" 4 Oct 2007 | 11:19 am
Scores of wildebeest lay dead along the banks of the Mara River in Kenya, having washed downstream after a bizarre mass death that occurred early last week. An estimated 10,000 of the animals drowned ...
Ancient Pharaoh Temple Discovered Inside Egypt Mosque 4 Oct 2007 | 11:15 am
Sections of columns and elaborately inscribed reliefs from an ancient Egyptian temple were recently discovered behind the walls of a mosque in Luxor. The oval relief, or cartouche, at center depicts t...
Kenya Plans for Huge Sugar Factory Spark Bitter Dispute 4 Oct 2007 | 11:11 am
Plans for a massive sugar factory in a Kenyan wetland could irreversibly ruin the ecosystem, conservationists say. The project, they warn, would wreak havoc on several indigenous groups, a vast array ...
Why Desalination Doesn't Work (Yet) 21 Aug 2007 | 09:45 am
Source: World Bank, 2007. The Most Arid Region in the World. With an average of only 1,383 cubic meters of renewable water resources per person per year in 2006, the MENA region falls far below the gl...
Global Warming: How Do Scientists Know They're Not Wrong? 21 Aug 2007 | 09:42 am
image: undispatch.com Global Warming: How Do Scientists Know They're Not Wrong? By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Staff Writer posted: 16 July 2007 09:34 am ET From catastrophic sea level rise to jar...
Water Discovered to Flow Like Molasses 21 Aug 2007 | 09:34 am
Water Discovered to Flow Like Molasses By Ben Mauk, Special to LiveScience livescience.com posted: 11 May 2007 08:58 am ET The Taoist poet Lao Tse famously wrote that water exemplifies the highest g...
Timeline: The Frightening Future of Earth 21 Aug 2007 | 09:31 am
Timeline: The Frightening Future of Earth By Andrea Thompson, and Ker Than livescience.com posted: 19 April 2007 08:32 am ET Our planet's prospects for environmental stability are bleaker than ever ...
Fossil Hunter Condemns Lucy Tour of U.S. 21 Aug 2007 | 09:25 am
The framed hominid fossil "Lucy," is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006. The 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleto...
Glimpse of Time Before Big Bang Possible 21 Aug 2007 | 09:09 am
Glimpse of Time Before Big Bang Possible By Charles Q. Choi, Special to LiveScience livescience.com posted: 01 July 2007 01:15 pm ET It may be possible to glimpse before the supposed beginning of ti...
