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The teeth of the newly described Eritreum melakeghebrekristosi are a tip-off to its position as a missing link in the elephant family tree. ANN ARBOR, Mich.—A pig-sized, tusked creature that roamed the earth some 27 million years ago represents a missing link between the oldest known relatives of elephants and the more recent group from which modern elephants descended, an international team that includes University of Michigan paleontologist William J. Sanders has found. The teeth of the newly described Eritreum melakeghebrekristosi are a tip-off to its position as a missing link in the elephant family tree. The group's findings,...

WASHINGTON, June 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The U.S. Senate will vote this week on the Marriage Protection Amendment, a bill which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. Senator Edward M. Kennedy was quoted today as saying, "A vote for this amendment is a vote for bigotry pure and simple." Kennedy, who claims to be Catholic while opposing the Church on every major tenet of morality, was blasted by Catholic League president Bill Donohue. "A vote for the Marriage Protection Amendment is a vote to maintain the traditional understanding of marriage as it has been accepted for...

A financial storm hit the Army and its largest post last month, with many programs still headed to a dry well at the end of June if Congress doesn't come up with a few more greenbacks and pass an emergency spending bill to cover the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard Cody blamed the military's budget woes on Congress' failure so far to pass a $92.2 billion supplemental request by the Bush administratioAdvertisement n to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as he announced a four-step plan to curtail spending in...

NEW LONDON, Conn.--City officials voted Monday night to evict residents who refused to leave their riverfront homes, signaling that the end may be near in an eminent domain dispute that reached the U.S. Supreme Court last year. The City Council approved the action 5-2. The city attorney will now go to court to seek removal of the remaining two families and obtain the properties in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, a process that could take three months. A lawyer for the families said they are considering continuing their battle. The city has been trying for a decade to redevelop the once-vibrant...

United Express flight overruns runway in central Wisconsin By Associated Press . MOSINEE, Wis. (AP) — A United Express flight that overran the runway on a landing at Central Wisconsin Airport was pulled from the mud on Wednesday. The 44 passengers and three crew members were not injured in Tuesday afternoon's landing, said manager Tony Yaron. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating Wednesday and found the situation highly unusual, said Elizabeth Isham Cory, a Chicago-based spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. The CRJ 200 regional jet was coming from Chicago and tried to land at about 4...

China's longest river "cancerous" with pollution.

American soldiers shoot at crowd in Kabul: at least four dead KABUL - American soldiers, implied in a traffic accident in Kabul, opened fire Monday on a crowd of demonstrators and killed at least 4 people, a correspondent of AFP noted. The soldiers who circulated on the road of Bagram, in the north of Kabul, initially pressed several vehicles. They then opened fire on a small crowd, which had gathered on the spot of the accident, and threw stones to them. According to a person in charge for the Afghan services of information, which wished to remain anonymous, to...

ALARM - Beginning of a new audience in the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein BAGHDAD - the High Iraqi penal court started Monday a new audience in the lawsuit of deposed president Saddam Hussein who will be devoted to hear witnesses of defense in the business of the massacre of villager Shiites in the years 1980, according to a correspondent of AFP.

Iran-Cave MP from Jiroft, Ali Zadsar here Wednesday said that a village whose residents are cavemen has been discovered at the heights of the city of Jiroft near Anbarabad in the southeastern province of Kerman. Speaking on the sidelines of Majlis open session, he said that a village was discovered 120 kms from the town of Anbarabad in the winter of 2005. He added that the residents of the newly-discovered village put on no clothes and feed on leaves. Zadsar said, "The village, called Pid-Nekoupieh, is situated in the mountain and the 200 people who live there have never left...

I cannot find it now, but I saw on Netscape about thirty minutes ago a story about an editor for Hustler magazine. This efitor has a book coming out soon. In it he tells the story of the “forced” resignation of Senator Robert Livingstone over sexual indiscretions. When Flynnt and his fellow goons went out to dig up dirt on Republicans in order to deflect attention from Bill Clinton and Monica, Hustler said they had the goods on Livingstone. They put out feelers and got a name. They called “the girlfriend” on the phone to get those goods, and she...

Another fishy missing link Posted: April 15, 2006 © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com It's been a week since the scientific world went gaga over a fish called "Tiktaalik," which is being billed as the missing link between water and land animals. The paleontoligists say the fossils they date to 383 million years ago show how land creatures first arose from the sea. Tiktaalik, they say, lived in shallow swampy waters and had the body of a fish but the jaws, ribs and limb-like fins of so-called "early mammals." "Tiktaalik represents a transitory creature between water and land," explained Farish Jenkins Jr. of...

ISLAMABAD, April 13 (Reuters) - An Egyptian al Qaeda member wanted for his role in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Kenya was killed by Pakistani forces close to the Afghan border, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Thursday. The minister named the man as Abdul Rehman, one of the aliases used by Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, for whom the United States has offered a $5 million reward. "He was involved in the Kenya bombing," Ahmed said. Military sources said the al Qaeda guerrilla was killed along with six other Islamist militants in a missile attack...

See for example this thread first. While digging in a Swedish Berm they found fossil sh*t from a worm But like a missing link, will this find raise a stink? It's bound to make some people...squirm!

(Allan Fenley is a ranking cadet at Millersburg Military Institute in Kentucky. He has responsibility for operation of the Junior Barracks. He is a junior. This essay was written to fulfill an English requirement. All junior English students are required to publish at least one short essay.) Why is the military important in today’s world? This is a question too few Americans are asking. It is because they take our military for granted? Is it because we are in denial about the global threats to our national security? A strong military is important to protect our nation against acts of...

The U.S. military has announced that the largest air assualt in 4 years in Afghanistan is underway in Kunar province. It was kicked off 15 hours ago, but a news embargo was imposed. An attempt has been made to keep the Al Queda and Taliban opposition contained so that they will not escape. Several thousand coalition soldiers are involved. The exit passes are being held since it was believed that too many opposition forces escaped during the previous Operation Anaconda.

Brother makes 2 Fords in 9th race Congressman's younger sibling files late, taking on own cousin Joseph Ford Jr. and his cousin Jake aren't the Hatfields and the McCoys, but as potential Ninth District congressional opponents they aren't exactly kissing cousins either. Jake Ford shied away from kissing and telling why he waited until Thursday, the qualifying deadline, to officially enter the bloated race to succeed his older brother, U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. "There's nothing strange about it," said Jake Ford, 33, who filed to run as an independent. "You have such a crowded field in this congressional race....

Prosecutors seeking Zacarias Moussaoui's execution introduced gruesome evidence of the horrors of terrorism Tuesday showing pictures of burned and blackened bodies from the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon. Over the objections of defense attorneys and despite warnings by a federal judge that such a strategy could backfire, government lawyers displayed for jurors the most gut-wrenching evidence yet in a sentencing trial studded with one horrific image after another. The photos were of the attack at the Defense Department, very near where the jurors are sitting. Each picture was displayed for just a few seconds each. They showed mostly...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli government has declared Ariel Sharon permanently incapacitated.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians will hear "good news" on their country's atomic programme on Tuesday night, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency. "After hearing all the good news tomorrow (Tuesday) night, Iranians should prostrate themselves before almighty God," he said in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Monday night. A conservative newspaper close to key officials has speculated the news would be that Iran had enriched uranium to the 3.5 percent level needed for fuel to run nuclear power stations. A reporter for the Arabic-language Al Arabiya satellite channel said Iran had...

ROME (Reuters) - Police have arrested Bernardo Provenzano, the head of the Sicilian Mafia who has been on the run for more than four decades and is Italy's most wanted man, Italy's Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.