JFK Redux! Déjà vu! Obama in Security Endangerment? From OpEdNews The event brought back a painful personal experience of my own when JFK was murdered. When JFK was assassinated, I said that the dupe (Oswald) charged with the crime would be assassinated and then his assassin (Ruby) would die in Prison the result of a toxic dose, which would bring on a heart attack. JFK was killed because Dallas police and the Secret Service did not occupy the roofs, did not deploy helicopters, did not properly search and occupy the buildings and in fact, were allegedly...

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Berkeley Professor speaks on Organ trafficking From University of Colorado The Campus Press Nancy Scheper-Hughes, professor of medical anthropology at the University of California, speaks about organ trafficking in Hale 230 on Friday, Feb. 22. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a medical anthropology professor at the University of California - Berkeley, will give a speech on Saturday about the global issue of organ trafficking. Organs Watch, an organization that seeks to promote human rights and deal with the worldwide issue of organ trafficking. These people, she said, have human rights that...

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Anthropology Museum of the Persian Gulf opens in Bandar Abbas From Tehran Times TEHRAN -- The Anthropology Museum of the Persian Gulf was inaugurated during a ceremony in the southern Iranian seaport of Bandar Abbas on February 21. At the opening ceremony, Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Organization Director Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaii called the architecture of the museum building a symbol of southern Iranian architecture and tradition.

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Height may be linked to ancestors From Times of India WASHINGTON: A study of various ethnic groups suggests that the average height of an individual may provide clues to where his distant ancestors lived, and what was their lifestyle. So your average Agta (an indigenous Philippine group) is much smaller than your average Inuit (an indigenous Arctic dwelling group)," he added.

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Breathe easy, now we know why a zigzag climb is best From Times Online But only now have academics investigated why we create zigzags when we climb hills - and why, when it can mean walking 20 times as far, a zigzag is faster than the shortest distance between two points. Marcos Llobera, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, and Tim Sluckin, Professor of Applied Mathematical Physics at the University of Southampton, developed a mathematical model showing that a zigzag provides the most efficient way for humans to go up or down...

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