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Flour appeared on menus 10,000 years agoProvo, Utah (UPI) Aug 23, 2010 Ancient Americans added a new item to their daily menu about 10,000 years ago when the grinding stone used to make flour appeared, U.S. researchers say. Brigham Young University scientists excavating one of the oldest known sites occupied by humans in what is now Utah found stone tools used to grind sage, salt bush and grass seeds into flour, a university release said Monday. Before the appearance of grinding stones, evidence at the dig site shows the menu contained duck, beaver and turk ... read more |
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Karachi (AFP) Aug 22, 2010Pakistani authorities Sunday evacuated tens of thousands from flood-threatened areas in the south but insisted that the 2.5 million people of Hyderabad were safe from the nation's worst-ever inundation. The weak civilian government has faced an outpouring of fury over sluggish relief efforts, while officials are warning the country faces ruinous economic losses of up to 43 billion dollars, a ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 23, 2010More than 250,000 people have been evacuated in northeast China following serious floods that have already left four dead and forced the relocation of thousands in neighbouring North Korea. Heavy summer downpours have dangerously swollen the Yalu river, which forms the border between the two countries, and forecasters are warning of yet more torrential rain to come. Chinese officials sai ... more  
Missoula, Mont. (UPI) Aug 20, 2010 Plant productivity around the world, once on the rise with warming temperatures and a longer growing season, is declining because of droughts, researchers say. Researchers at the University of Montana analyzed NASA satellite data to discover the global turnaround of productivity, a NASA release said Friday. Plant productivity is a measure the photosynthesis process green plants u ... more |
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Floods raise spectre of Pakistan social unrestIslamabad (AFP) Aug 22, 2010 Nearly a month after Pakistan's worst ever natural disaster flooded a fifth of the country and hit 20 million people, the spectres of social unrest and Islamist extremism are stalking the nation. Torrential rains have had a catastrophic impact on the impoverished, nuclear-armed nation, causing economic losses that could see Pakistan default on an IMF loan and leaving eight million people dependent on aid for survival. While the international community has now donated almost 500 million dollars, ... read more |
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