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...LINGUISTICS 8,000 Age, in years, of rock carvings in northwest China that archaeologists say might be early Chinese characters, a finding that would more than double the estimated age of written Chinese's origins 3,000 B.C. Estimated era that Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia (in modern-day Iraq) are believed to have developed cuneiform, the world's earliest known written language...
...casino is located on a 24-hectare strip of land on the southern shore of Marina Bay, not far from the city's growing financial district at the mouth of the Singapore River. In February American casino operator Las Vegas Sands broke ground there on what will be the city's first integrated resort, scheduled to be completed in 2009. Beyond gambling, the Marina Bay Sands-composed of three nearly identical 50-story towers-will offer 2,500 hotel rooms, 93,000 sq m of convention space, two theaters, an ice-skating rink, shops and restaurants. A revitalized waterfront will...
Officially the world's top gambling destination, the small southern Chinese city of Macau last year hosted over 22 million visitors-more than 40 times its population of 513,000. With at least four more massive casino resorts in the pipeline, those numbers are expected to soar, and that means more jobs for locals in the hospitality industry...
...comes in the form of Levi Richards, a lean wide receiver/defensive back out of the small southern Illinois town of Newton...
...arrived. The new service consists of a small hatch facing the outside of the building where desperate parents could safely and discreetly leave unwanted infants. But nobody was expecting to see a three-year-old deposited in the hatch. The toddler reportedly told doctors at the hospital in the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto that "I came with Daddy," and knew his own name, which enabled authorities to identify the father...