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May 14th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

As the official death toll in China’s massive earthquake neared 15,000 Wednesday, military helicopters dropped food and medicine to survivors who remained cut off in remote mountain villages. In a NewsHour interview, Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese Ambassador to the U.S., discussed the devastation in central China.

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    Neanderthal reconstruction Photo: Stefan Scheer, Neanderthal Museum, Mettman, Germany There were thousands of years that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens inhabited the same regions in Europe. How much...
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The Hawaiian chain of islands, made up of six main islands plus two smaller ones, stretches for more than 1,500 miles through the heart of...
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Located along the riverbanks of southern Kenya, the sycomore fig tree is the centerpiece of an extraordinary ecosystem, producing several tons of fruit a year...
 
 
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