Among artefacts uncovered are the remains of a 5ft shark.”For many people in South Florida there is a sense of rootlessness and a lack of a sense of history,” said John Ricisak, a state archaeologist. Most experts believe the circle is the work of the Tequesta Indians, who for centuries roamed the lower half of [...]
The first day of legislative and presidential voting in Namibia, which is the size of Britain and France combined but has a population of just 1.7 million, went off smoothly yesterday, despite internal tensions and President Sam Nujoma’s revision of the constitution last year to allow himself a third term in office.
In Mozambique, which has [...]
You can’t just throw resources at this project.” Problems may also arise because 2000 is a leap year – in programs that calculate interest, for example.An independent analysis by International Monitoring, a consultancy based in London, suggests that the US, Britain and Russia will be among countries that experience the most bug effects. If you’re [...]
I didn’t want chit-chat, I wanted things done and that was not popular with many nurses.”The 57-year-old surgeon said he began performing the complex switch operation, in which the main arteries of the heart are switched round, in 1988, and his first five patients all died. I felt it was not professional, things were not [...]
An older man in an Uncle Sam outfit had dollar bills pinned to his coat tails and symbolically swung at a football-sized globe with a baseball bat.Speeches broadcast over the loudspeakers denounced the capitalist system and accused the WTO of putting profits before people and the planet.Seattle has a long history of civil protest stretching [...]
Private security guards stood outside cafes, restaurants and shops.Seattle, which hosted a famous general strike in 1919, was once again in a state of virtual shutdown. The port was closed and several groups of workers were on strike for the day, including taxi-drivers hoping to deprive WTO delegates of a means of transport.During the late [...]