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- Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating
- PARIS AFP — A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp. Controversy has swirled around Toumai, the name given to the nearly-complete skull, ever since it...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Bugs save pest-controller's life in Australian desert
- SYDNEY AFP — An Australian pest controller who got lost in the desert while prospecting for gold survived by turning for help to the bugs he usually kills -- and eating them. Theo Rosmulder, 52, managed to stay alive in the harsh West Australian desert for five days by...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- Israel tells schoolgirls: Don't bed the Bedouins
- JERUSALEM AFP — Schoolgirls in a southern Israeli town are taught not to date Bedouins and shown a video called 'Sleeping with the Enemy', but the man behind the sex education programme insisted on Tuesday it was not racist. "I compare this with ocean outings, when the black flags...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Oriental cowboys, glass-eating fakir -- Asia beguiles Cannes
- CANNES, France AFP — A mega-budget South Korean "kimshi" western and a glass-eating fakir at the heart of a shoestring Singapore production rolled onto the screen Saturday as the Cannes film festival prepared to wind up. "The Good The Bad The Weird" is an action-packed "oriental" western inspired by...
- Research articles 2008-05-24
- Sahara made slow transition from green to desert: study
- WASHINGTON AFP — The Sahara became the world's biggest hot desert some 2,700 years ago after a very slow fade from green, according to a new study which clashes with the theory that desertification came abruptly. Six thousand years ago, the massive arid region dominating northern Africa was quite...
- Research articles 2008-05-09
- Largest hotels: ranked by number of guest rooms in the greater San Fernando Valley area
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY TRAVELERS seeking a top-shelf hotel suite have a number to choose from in the greater Valley area, from the Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village which can run almost $3,800, to the $1,200 suite at the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City, to the comparatively modest $749 suite at the...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- Private schools: ranked by total current enrollment in the greater San Fernando Valley
- PRIVATE SCHOOLS Ranked by total current enrollment in the greater San Fernando Valley Rank school Students Staff ...
- Research articles 2008-02-18
- NBA today
- Tonight's top game Dallas at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m. The Mavericks travel to the desert to take on the new-look Suns
- Research articles 2008-02-14
- Cinema: Also showing
- P.S. I LOVE YOU (12A) ** Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank squanders her talents in this tepid romantic comedy based on the best-selling book about a young woman coming to terms with the loss of her husband. Love across the supernatural divide may have endured for Patrick Swayze and...
- Research articles 2008-01-14
- ADB to help China fight desert drift
- MANILA AFP — China is getting outside help for a project to stop the alarming spread of deserts in its western interior that causes siltation of the Yellow River, the Asian Development Bank said Saturday. Manila-based ADB said it will help Beijing design a project to restore the severely...
- Research articles 2008-01-12
- Hotels: ranked by number of guest rooms as of Feb. 1, 2007
- HOTELS Ranked by number of guest rooms as of Feb. 1, 2007 ...
- Research articles 2007-12-31
- Spain pushes ahead with 'European Las Vegas' project
- ZARAGOZA, Spain AFP — A giant project to build a complex of 70 hotels, 32 casinos and five theme parks in the Spanish desert got under way on Wednesday with the signing of an agreement with the developers, officials said. The "entertainment city" has been provisionally named Gran Scala...
- Research articles 2007-12-12
- European Las Vegas planned for Spanish desert
- MADRID AFP — Europe is set to get its own version of Las Vegas in a desert region of eastern Spain where developers plan to build 32 hotel-casinos, two theme parks, a racecourse and stadium over the next decade. The project, approved last week by the regional government of...
- Research articles 2007-12-03
- Ancient Chinese town on front lines of desertification battle
- DUNHUANG, China AFP — Towering sand dunes loom over the ancient Chinese city of Dunhuang like giant waves about to break, and they are already lapping at Ma Wangzhen's onion farm. She points a rough finger at a line of dead trees, half-buried in sand, planted years ago as...
- Research articles 2007-11-20
- Dubai unveils 11-billion dollar canal plan
- DUBAI AFP — Cash-rich Dubai on Wednesday unveiled the latest in a series of grandiose projects, a 75-kilometre (46 mile) canal which will extend the business and leisure hub into the heart of the emirate's desert. The 11-billion dollar Arabian Canal will flow inland from the city's port of...
- Research articles 2007-10-10
- Fore! Students collect golf balls for US soldiers in Iraq
- WASHINGTON AFP — Students at a Washington high school have collected thousands of golf balls for US soldiers in Iraq, who reportedly use a desert driving range to unwind, a local television station reported Thursday. Pupils at Gonzaga College High School have collected around 14,000 golf balls for the...
- Research articles 2007-09-27
- Peter Christopher.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
- Peter Christopher Todd Johnson Peter Christopher Todd Johnson, 34, died of a heart attack in his sleep April 17, 2007, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Peter moved to Scottsdale to attend Arizona State University after attending Avery Coonley School and Downers Grove South High School, Class...
- Research articles 2007-06-17
- Remains identified as manhunt fugitive
- Pieces of bones found in the desert are revealing new details about the last days of three desperate men who led police on one of the largest manhunts in U.S. history. "It puts everything to rest," San Juan County Sheriff Mike Lacy said Tuesday. "After nine years." ...
- Research articles 2007-06-13
- American football: More pro athletes are packing heat on streets
- LOS ANGELES AFP — Terry 'Tank' Johnson was milling about with some of his Chicago Bears teammates during media day at Super Bowl 41 in Miami when someone popped the question. Why does such a big man (1.8 metres, 136 kilogrammes) need so many guns? "Ah, well, I'm...
- Research articles 2007-05-14
- Largest meeting facilities: ranked by total square footage of meeting space in the greater San Fernando Valley
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY THE top five meeting facilities in the greater Fernando Valley all have at least 20 meeting rooms. While most of the largest greater Valley meeting facilities are in hotels, a few are also in other venues such as universities. Among those, California State University Northridge,...
- Research articles 2007-04-16
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