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...Carole Buia...
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...With reporting by Carole Buia, Amy Lennard Goehner, Georgia Harbison and Benjamin Nugent/New York, Jeanne McDowell and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles, Karen Ann Cullotta/Chicago and Rachele Kanigel/Walnut Creek
Exactly when and how it happened is unclear. The oldest Neanderthal fossils in hand date only to 200,000 B.P., and the oldest Homo sapiens to about 100,000. But some recent discoveries may help answer those questions. A 1 million-year-old cranium from Buia, Eritrea, for example, has characteristics of both H. erectus and H. sapiens. And what Asfaw and his colleagues call a "spectacular" partial cranium of the same age from Ethiopia should help as well when it's formally unveiled...
...survivors of the quake, part of the terror was the unexpectedness of the tremors on a warm spring evening and the fact that they began in darkness. "We had just turned on the TV after dinner," said one resident of Buia (pop. 8,000). "At first I thought it was a truck passing. But then the roof caved in on my mother. She died instantly." In neighboring Maiano (pop. 6,200), hit hardest by the earthquake, a trattoria collapsed on 40 customers dining inside. With power gone and no lights to work by, rescuers could do little more than pull...