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...Earlier this year, Libya brokered a non-belligerence pact between Chad and Sudan. But soon after the leader of the Chadian rebels, Mohammad Nour, 35, told TIME it "is not serious" Sitting on the outskirts of a camp along the Chad-Sudan border under the shade of a mango tree he contemplated his next move. "I?m not going to be under these trees much longer," he said...
...UNESCO World Heritage Site, and only 1,500 human visitors are allowed per year. But be warned: there's still crime. Frigate birds, the pirates of the skies, steal their fish from red-footed boobies. Catch this high-flying action from the shade of a casuarina tree, relaxed in the knowledge that when you reboard the ship, a tasty five-course meal awaits you. noble-caledonia.co.uk
...team co-led by Corrie S. Moreau, a doctoral candidate in organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard, has published the first large-scale study of ants based on DNA to make an ant family tree, showing how different ant species are related. A little known subterranean subfamily, Leptanillinae, was discovered to be the most ancient relative of modern-day ants. “Until our study, the phylogenetic relationships of the ants was not resolved,” wrote Moreau in an e-mail...
...pattern of evolution suggests the ant family tree began to split with the advent of flowering plants, 100 million years ago, as ants adapted to newly-emergent environments...
...Hotel and the Convention Center where the Iraqi parliament meets, and past a warren of low buildings that houses two Iraqi army brigades called Camp Honor. The area ends at the northeasternmost edge along the Tigris River at the white columns of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and the tree-lined streets around the Prime Minister?s residence. Only the innermost cordon of U.S. Embassy officies and sensitive military installations are guarded entirely by U.S. troops...