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This suggests that Neanderthals split off from the human family tree quite a bit earlier than most scientists believed. The ancestral population of all modern humans is thought to have emerged about 150,000 years ago. Humans and chimps diverged at least 4 million years earlier. Based on the new DNA study, our ancestors and Neanderthals split up about 550,000 to 690,000 years ago--and were never reconciled...
DETROIT: At least seven people died late Wednesday when powerful thunderstorms ripped through the Midwest, uprooting trees and lifting homes off their foundations. In the wealthy Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms, three children and two adults who sought shelter in a waterside gazebo were killed when strong winds swept the little building into the air and sent it crashing into Lake St. Clair. On the east side of Detroit, witnesses said a tornado lifted a house off its foundation and tossed it several feet into an alley. A 38-year-old woman from Mount Morris Township, near Flint...
...YORK: Shrugging off its tree-hugging past like a youthful indiscretion, the Clinton Administration plans to show this week's U.N. Earth Summit that green is now the color of dollar-denominated economic booms, not just campaigns to halt global warming. In a welcoming speech strangely at odds with his onetime reputation as the Clinton Administration's fiercest environmental warrior, Vice President Al Gore conceded that action on global warming is needed, but steered clear of specifics. "It's a big capitulation to industry," says TIME's Dick Thompson. "What's driving the U.S. economic expansion is greenhouse gases." Case...
...admission that the programmers fine-tuned Deep Blue to curb its aggressiveness provided even more evidence that Deep Blue was acting only as a calculator. If the program had been able to see the forest as well as cut down each tree, it would have made that adjustment itself. In the future, such adjustments by researchers between games should not be allowed. Deep Blue should be left on its own to meet the overall capability of its opponent, a much greater challenge. ROBERT J. KRAWCZYK Chicago...
DRESSED TO KILL Government Exhibit 429: the T shirt Timothy McVeigh wore on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. The back reveals a tree with droplets of blood for leaves, and underneath is a 1787 inscription by Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." The front of the shirt shows a picture of Abraham Lincoln's face as if displayed on a wanted poster, and it is accompanied by the Latin phrase shouted by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater after he assassinated the Civil...