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Some of the earliest settlers of America may have come fromAustralia, southern Asia, and the Pacific, instead of overthe Bering ice bridge (which no longer exists) from Siberia.Ancient bones 12,000 years old have long and narrow headsthat are very different from the short, broad skulls oftoday’s Native Americans, who trace their origins from thenorth. This means that present-day Indians were not thefirst people here.

In bbcnews.com, Paul Rincon quotes archeologist SilviaGonzalez as saying, “They appear more similar to southernAsians, Australians and populations of the South Pacific Rimthan they do to northern Asians. We think there were severalmigration waves into the Americas at different times bydifferent human groups.”
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During the SARS epidemic, we reported that it killed somecats (including big ones in zoos). Now it’s been discoveredthat the deadly bird flu that’s been spreading through Asiacan be caught by cats as well, who can then pass it on toother felines. Scientists don’t know if cats can spread theflu to people.

Why wasn’t this discovered before? World HealthOrganization’s influenza chief Klaus Stohr says, “One[reason] is nobody looked.” WHO scientists now plan toexamine household cats whenever they investigate humanbird-flu infections. When they checked in Vietnam, theyfound the cats in flu patients’ homes were healthy.
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In his newJournal,Whitley writes: “September, 2004, has been a terrible monthon planet earth. We have suffered one of the greatestsequence of storms in recent memory, with devastation fromthe United States to China to Bangladesh?Billions of dollarsand hundreds of lives have been lost. It will get worse andworse and worse, unless we act at once. Leaders who ignorethis problem are not leaders at all. History will see themfor what they truly are: undertakers.”

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Microquakes continued to swarm in a remote area along theNevada-California border on Sunday, September 19. As of9:00PM Pacific Daylight Time, over three hundred microquakeshad been recorded in the area.

The quakes are taking place along a fault line that is notedfor being seismically robust. Numerous microquakes wererecorded in the same area in 1980, but not on the scale thathas occurred over the last few days.

The quakes are also occuring within a volcanic area.However, there is noevidence that these quakes are related to volcanic activity.

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