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Reuters reported today that the Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein bank has warned its clients that revised US productivity figures due to be released Tuesday could result in a market crash.

It is expected that the revised productivity figures will indicate that US productivity has not only not been rising as expected, but that the whole productivty miracle of the 1990s was a result of measurement errors.

This means that the internet revolution, among other things, has increased the profitability of companies less than previously thought, and that future productivity increases will be less than expected. To read the full Insight article click here.

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Explorer’s Club board member Catherine Cooke will be discussing her journey to Nepal in search of the Yeti tonight on Dreamland. Ms. Cooke is the neice of Tom Slick, the legendary oilman who conducted the first scientific expeditions in search of the Yeti back in the fifties. Cathy followed in his footsteps, deep into parts of Nepal that remain to this day almost entirely untravelled. Braving an increasingly tense political situation and adverse weather conditions, she made some remarkable discoveries.
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Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Dreamland show we planned for tonight will not be aired. We will air this show at a later date. Tonight, enjoy a Dreamland classic, Dr. Rick Strassman on the first officially sanctioned DMT research in 40 years, and Dr. Edgar Mitchell on the fact that we really did go to the moon.

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Researchers in South Africa claim they have extracted the DNA of an early human.

The microscopic traces of blood which yielded the sample are apparently from a 1.8 million-year-old hominid. If the claim is authenticated the DNA will be the oldest sample ever extracted.

Wits University micro-archaeologist Bonnie Williamson, says, ?The DNA we have found is something between a chimpanzee and a human, which suggests a hominid.? Williamson and her colleague Professor Tom Loy of the University of Queensland believe this DNA sequence is from either our direct ancestor Homo habilis or Paranthropus robustus. The tools on which the blood was found were in the Sterkfontein Caves, a World Heritage site in the Gauteng region.
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