Stuff below the fold

Santorini, the volcano that is though to be behind the Atlantic myth, is rumbling again.

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StrategyPage has some background on the headlines

This One from strategypage, saying that it's awful quiet and that the murder spree was in a neighborhood run by Taliban drug gangs so no one can get in and investigate what happened.

The second is Austin Bay's column that cautions that a quick pull out will result in Cambodia redux.

and Pakistan's ISI the mastermind of the Mumbai bombings is organizing for the next election.

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New branch of ancient humans? The Red Deer Cave People don't seem to fit into the old categories.

The people may be linked to the Skhul/Qafzeh people out of Israel and/or the equally mysterious Denisova people from Altai, Groves said. Curnoe and his team are now attempting to recover DNA from the samples, which could answer these and other questions.

Guess I'll have to start listening to the Biological Anthropology lectures or the prehistory ones from USCSD...

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You heard of the "twinkie defense"?

Now there's the "I can't believe it's not Butter" rage attack.

A chemical called 'trans fatty acids' - found in large quantities in margarine, and also in other fast foods - makes people aggressive and irritable.

Researchers studied 945 people with varying diets - and found those who ate large quantities of the chemical were consistently more aggressive.

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