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POPSStone Age Humans Crossed Sahara in the Rain Wet spells While about 40 per cent of hydrocarbons in today's dust come from water-dependent plants, this rose to 60 per cent, first between 120,000 and 110,000 ago and again from 50,000 to 45,000 years ago. So the region seemed to be in the grip of unusually wet spells at the time. That may have been enough to allow sub-Saharan Stone Age Homo sapiens to migrate north: the first fossils of modern humans outside Africa date from 93,000 year ago in Israel. And both genetic analysis and archaeology show that humans didn't spread extensively beyond Africa until 50,000 years ago, suggesting a second migration at the time of the second wet spell. Fossil record Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York is impressed by the findings. "They tie in approximately with the information we have from the fossil record."
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POPSCash for Clunkers Video Sparks Outrage Over Wasteful Government Programs
Probably no vehicle as yet since the Cash for Clunkers program ran out of money and the government computers handling these transactions have seized up worse than that Volvo engine. Back to the comments, many of which are from foreigners who can't believe how stupid Americans have become in the Age of Obama: Damn it, I would've been ECSTATIC to own that car! Got a 93 Crown Vic right now with one of those damned AODE transmissions. I'd love to work out a deal with a dealership so I could trade my TRUE clunker in for one of these perfectly good cars, 80% of which are being sold to China of all places for the steel. What a criminal waste of useful cars AND our tax dollars!!! (Actually, not even OUR tax dollars - it's all borrowed!!!) All to please some environmental nutcases who believe The Little People should drive around in tiny little clown cars! What a f----in waste! I know lots of college kids, young professionals and even high school kids that need dependable
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POPSFor What? "Kids who are sent off to war are forced to grow up too fast. They soon learn what real toughness is, and it has nothing to do with lousy bureaucrats and armchair warriors sacrificing the lives of the young for political considerations and hollow, flag-waving, risk-free expressions of patriotic fervor. McNamara, it turns out, had realized early on that Vietnam was a lost cause, but he kept that crucial information close to his chest, like a gambler trying to bluff his way through a bad hand, as America continued to send tens of thousands to their doom. How in God’s name did he ever look at himself in a mirror? Lessons learned from Vietnam? None."
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POPSSri K. Pattabhi Jois passed at age 93 In his classes, apart from a brief prayer to the guru and Patanjali, there are no theory classes. According to him, when you have mastered the breath and the postures, enlightenment will come automatically. The wayward ‘monkey mind’ has to be brought under control by vigorous yoga asanas and pranayama. Ashtanga is a practice that stresses eight concepts: Yama Niyama Asana Pranayama Pratyahara Dharana Dhyana Samadhi
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POPSToday in History: Friday, March 27, 2009
1996 An Israeli court convicted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's confessed assassin of murder, then sentenced former law student Yigal Amir to life in prison. 1997 Dexter King, son of Martin Luther King Jr., met with James Earl Ray, the man in prison for the assassination of the civil rights leader. Ray denied having anything to do with the shooting, to which King replied, "I believe you." 1998 The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Viagra, made by Pfizer, to fight male impotence. 2001 California regulators approved electricity rate hikes of up to 46 percent. 2002 A suicide bomber killed 29 Israelis during a Passover Seder in Netanya, Israel. 2002 Comedian Milton Berle died at age 93. 2006 Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified at his federal trial that he was supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House. 2007 NFL owners voted 30-2 to make the video replay system a permanent officiating tool.
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POPS"Lotus Feet" A very cruel practise in China was to bind the feet of little girls to give them deformed feet that were called "Lotus Feet". This site tells the story - with a couple of old photographs - of some of these women, how they lived and moved with these deformed feet.
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POPSI'LL BE JUST FINE, SAYS PLANET "Look, I'm just a planet doing its thing, alright? If you want to live on me, that's your business, but I've got important planet stuff to do, okay? "Try being in elliptical orbit for five minutes, or balancing your gravitational pull with a medium-sized moon. Let me assure you, it's no fucking picnic." The planet said environmental campaigners should change their slogan from 'Save the Planet' to something more relevant such as 'Save Your Sorry Arse'. Earth added: "Okay, so there may come a time when, for a variety of reasons, I am no longer able to support pandas, polar bears, and humans, but you know what? Life goes on. UNFORTUNATELY, IF WE KILL THE OCEANS, THIS MAY NOT BE TRUE, SATIRE OR NOT.
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POPSI'LL BE JUST FINE, SAYS PLANET From The Daily Mash. The planet said environmental campaigners should change their slogan from 'Save the Planet' to something more relevant such as 'Save Your Sorry Arse'.
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POPSWebsites you absolutely must bookmark, Part 1 www.eSnailer.com allows you to really send a real letter on real paper to anyone you know. We're talking think-you notes to grandma, or anything else you might possibly need to send a piece of paper to a company for. I know the form doesn't accept HTML but I haven't yet experimented with copy and pasting images yet, so if you find a way to place an image inside the body of the letter please let me know. THIS SITE IS FREE, AND YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO BUY POSTAGE!!
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POPSEx-Cuban military officer dies at age 93 "Had his attempt against Batista been successful, there would have been no Castro, no Communists in Cuba, no Bay of Pigs, no missile crisis," said his son, Ramon C. Barquin Jr. of Bethesda. "My father was always, always disappointed he could not have saved Cuba and the world a lot of grief." He wrote five books in Spanish on Cuban history and on education, and his latest, "My Dialogues with Fidel, Raul and Che," is scheduled for publication in the spring.
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POPS46 million abortions are made in every year! Oh my god! Every three woman in Europe has abortion made, MORE than EVERY ONE in eastern Europe! This is shocking information! 93% OF ABORTIONS ARE MADE FOR SOCIAL REASONS :O I've always thought those "abortion is murder" thigs are stupid but these statistics really twisted my mind. Mayby abortion is 93% murder and 7% justified after all. Legal murder, for god sake...
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POPSAbortion by Race From 1976 to 1994 over ONE THIRD of all abortions were unborn BLACK babies. Over 90% of all abortion clinics are in areas where a predominate number of blacks reside. This appears to be the long road to extermination by the modern day Materialist movement.
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