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Ostrich beads indicate early symbolic thought 18:25 31 March 04 NewScientist.com news service Stone Age beads revealed by archaeologists on Wednesday could be the strongest evidence yet that humans developed sophisticated symbolic thought much earlier than once thought. The ostrich egg beads and numerous other artefacts, including ochre pencils, carved bone and stone tools, were recovered from the Loiyangalani River Valley, in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. The archaeologists who discovered the relics have yet to date them precisely, but believe they originate from the African Middle Stone Age - between 280,000 and 45,000 years ago. This is because they...

A column urging Bill and Hillary Clinton to leave the national stage so that Democratic presidential candidates won't have to labor in their shadow has apparently been spiked by news editors who regularly carry Hillary's Creators Syndicate essays. A LexisNexis search Friday morning turned up not a single published version of the Estrich screed, in which the liberal Democratic operative implored the Clintons to "shut up" and predicted that Hillary would never be president. Still, millions of Americans learned of Estrich's analysis from Rush Limbaugh, who spent several segments of his top-rated radio talk show on Thursday discussing Estrich's bombshell...

The stupid insipid ostrich that pops its head into every thread on behalf of fundraising.

Action is at bottom of article! The Mayor's Report Parkway Road Opponents Spreading Misinformation We need your help. We are in another comment period concerning the New River Parkway, and people who live outside our area are working hard to determine the economic future of our community. They are doing so by spreading misinformation. We need for you to write letters, sign petitions in support of the New River Parkway, and attend the May 7 meeting at the Summers County High School between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. As a community, we need to speak up about the future...

A DIPLOMATIC row is looming between Zimbabwe and Indonesia following the acquisition of four Nyamandlovu farms in breach of an agreement signed between the two countries. The four farms belonging to PT Royal Ostrindo and Dollar Bubi (Private) Limited, were re-designated by the government last month. The group is the country's leading producer of live ostrich for skins and meat for export. It employs more than 1 000 people. The $6 billion investment is covered by a government-to-government agreement which originates from a G15 countries' meeting. Part of the agreement reads: "Investors of one Contracting Party, whose investments in the...