Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study, conducted by San Diego-based Sequana Therapeutics, focused on a remote population of people on the Island of Tristan da Cunha, located about 1,500 miles southwest of South Africa. Approximately 30 percent of the island's citizens have asthma, which they apparently inherited from an original settler. After studying the DNA of 300 inhabitants, the team was able to pinpoint the location of the gene, potentially paving the way for new drugs which can treat or perhaps cure the ailment which has skyrocketed worldwide over the past two decades. Beyond the island's small population, the researchers...
Just this May, outside the same settlement, 17-year-old yeshiva student David Boim was gunned down while waiting for a bus to return home from school. A few foreign news agencies mentioned him in passing as "a settler." The suspected killer, Amjad Hannoi, was picked up by the Palestinian Authority shortly after the attack; so far he has not been extradited, though an official request was filed by the Israeli government...
...Jewish settler justifying confiscation of Palestinian land explained: "It is simple, we are the children of God, the Palestinians are the servants of God!" It is against such fanaticism and racism that peace loving Palestinians and Israelis should work to secure a future based on mutual recognition of national rights. --Ramy M. Tadros...
...managed to find most of the skeleton. The arm and leg bones suggested that the dead man came from genetic stock very different from that of the Indians who have lived in that part of the country for centuries. Chatters figured he had the body of an early settler or trader...
...pelvis was a spear point. It was the kind used by hunters not hundreds but many thousands of years ago. And when Chatters sent a bit of bone off to the University of California, Riverside, for radiocarbon dating, the results showed that there was indeed something special about this "settler." His bones were about 9,300 years...