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Over 450 prehistoric pots were examined, 66 of them contained traces of lipids, that is, substances insoluble in water. On behalf of the Nok research team at Goethe University, chemists from the University of Bristol extracted lipid profiles, with the aim of revealing which plants had been used. The results have now been published in “Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences”: over a third of the 66 lipid profiles displayed very distinctive and complex distributions – indicating that different plant species and parts had been processed.Today, leafy vegetables, for example the cooked leaves of trees such as the baobab (Adansonia digitata) or...

WASHINGTON — The Trump White House no habla español. Well, un poquito. After a succession of administrations that embraced Spanish-language content, President Donald Trump's White House is all but ignoring Spanish speakers even though he has a robust online presence in English. His administration has yet to offer a Spanish White House website. It has eliminated the position of director of Hispanic media outreach. And its Spanish-language Twitter account is heavy with English text and features sloppy translations. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in January that the administration had its "IT folks working overtime" to roll out a...

The authorities were called when the "American Idol" runner-up and his reality star boyfriend Sauli Koskinen got into a fight outside a Helsinki gay bar. The two were released on Thursday afternoon. American Idol star Adam Lambert spent several hours in a Finnish jail Thursday after being arrested outside a Helsinki gay bar following a brawl with his Finnish boyfriend, local reality star Sauli Koskinen.

After the results last night and my incomprehension of how Taylor Hicks could possibly win as American Idol. Aside from the bias against the Women in this years competion i.e., Stevie Wonder Week, Rod Stewart week, Elvis week...You get the drift. I started digging and if you go to DIALIDOL.COM and investigate the # of votes after public voting started from the top 24. Taylor received the most number of votes (based on the dialidol.com method of vote counting) every single Tuesday. He never even got second best. No I am sorry but there is no way Taylor can be...

Greta just talked to Beth Holloway and

I know that many political websites are for informed exchange of ideas, humor, and for pushing forward our agendas, conservative or liberal, but at the DU they have gone too far. They have desecrated our flag by putting swashtikas with our stars. I hope that we never lose sight of what is important like the opposition has. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2778321&mesg_id=2778321

Wed Apr 30, 3:23 PM ET David Chatham shows off his newly remodeled bathroom in Raleigh, NC Wednesday, April 30, 2003. Chatham believes he'll benefit from the work he's doing on his home in Raleigh, N.C. The bathroom decor, which dated to the mid-1980s, 'was really unattractive,' he said. So he and his fiancee recently removed the floral wall paper and had the pink tile replaced with tile in a neutral tone. (AP/Stan Gilliland)

The IDF has decided that former Lechi fighter Ezra Yachin will no longer be allowed to lecture to soldiers as part of the army's educational seminars. Meretz MK Naomi Chazan complained that Yachin tells his audiences that Lechi soldiers did not carry out a massacre in Dir Yassin in 1948. Yachin himself, who took part in the Dir Yassin battle, says that the decision to keep him away from soldiers "astonishes" him. He says that just as there was no massacre in Jenin, there was none in Dir Yassin. A work by ZOA National President Morton A. Klein, entitled, Dir...