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• First Americans were all from Siberia
... that humans sprinkled in to both North and South America on open sea voyages 30,000 years in the past. "We have reasonably clear genetic evidence that the most likely candidate for the source of Native American populations is somewhere in east Asia ...
• Rice lauds nuclear deal with India
NEW DELHI, India - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the Indian capital Saturday to commemorate — but not put her signature to — a historic deal that opens up U.S. nuclear trade with the Asia giant. A signing ceremony that had been ...
• Early humans hailed from Asia, too
An international team of researchers reports in Monday’s online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that Asians appear to have played a larger part in the settlement of Europe than did Africans. The team led by Maria Martinon ...
• Tiny bit of melamine in food usually OK
The chemical has also turned up in products sold across Asia, ranging from candies, to chocolates, to coffee drinks, that used dairy ingredients from China. Authorities in California and Connecticut have found melamine in White Rabbit candies ...
• Stocks tumble after House OKs bailout plan
Oct. 3: The average American house size is 2,500 square feet, but due to rising energy costs, job uncertainty and the mortgage crisis, a growing number of people are seriously downsizing—in one extreme case, to a house smaller than 100 square feet ...