European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 stars and stripes june 2007 one step closer to the Greico Caveman european researchers expect to be Able to reproduce neanderthal Dan by Randolph Schmid the associated press Washington research ers in Europe studying Neander Thal Dan say it should be Possi ble to construct a Complete genome of the ancient hominid de spite the degradation of the Dan Over there is also Hope for reconstructing the genome of the Mam Moth and the Cave Accord ing to a research team led by Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for evolutionary anthropology in their findings Are published in this weeks online edition of proceedings of the National facade my of debate has raged for years about whether there is any relationship Between neanderthals and modern some re searchers believe that neanderthals were simply replaced by Early modern while oth ers argue the two groups May have sequencing the genome of be who lived in Europe until about years could shed some Light on that in studies of Cave Bear and a major Ity of the Dan recovered was that of microorganisms that colonized the tissues after the re searchers but they were Able to identify some Dan from the original Ani and Paabo and his col leagues were Able to determine How it broke Down Over they also developed procedures to prevent contamination by the Dan of humans working with the flying unfriendly skies by Scott Mccartney the Wall Street journal while air travel was expected to have its share of hassles this it has turned into a night Mare for Many in recent travellers have been hit with Long delays caused by every thing from labor shortages and seasonal thunderstorms to com Puter the number of flights cancelled in the first is Days of june was up a whopping 91 percent compared with the same period last and the number of flights that were excessively late More than 45 minutes 61 per according to flight percent of All flights arrived on time from june 1 through june com pared with 79 percent last i Fly a and Ive never seen it this bad this its like the italian train said Nick a vice president at networking concern in Elliden who was stuck in Philadel phia for two Days after his flight on us airways was delayed and then cancelled last Northwest airlines battling with labor cancelled 352 flights on saturday and Sun Day More than the Carrier can celeb in the entire month of june last according to flight with air planes booked full on a Busy summer ground ing 13 percent of flights left Many travellers and problems continued by 100 flights had already been just a week Northwest pilots Union passed a no Confidence Resolution on citing shortages this summer of pilots As Well As millions of dollars in executive Northwest said in a statement that the airline was experiencing Crew shortages after storms earlier in the month increased duty and was relaxing ticket restrictions to accommodate Passen Gers As quickly As summer is always Tough for air with Large crowds of travel ers to handle while contending with summer storms air planes usually dont Fly through Thunder so routes and airports can be shut Down by bad but this with airlines packing planes Fuller than even Small storms have cascaded into major disruptions for with Load factors approaching 90 per cent or More on Many find ing available seats when custom ers miss connections or get stranded by cancellations been diff and some travellers have been stranded for several Don a supportive message engraved on a 150pound Mississippi River Rock is displayed at the University Union and student activities Center on the Virginia tech Campus in gifts show tech that the world cares by sue Lindsey the associated press one supportive from Ita Wamba Community came engraved on a 150pound Rock from the Mississippi another was a Lime Green Hood from a race car bearing Virginia techs a Large painting of a tree arrived on a semitrailer from a new York uni gifts of Comfort showered upon Virginia tech after a student killed 32 people and himself have got ten heavier and More exotic since the april 16 shooting it started with said Steven who had worked at the University doing the student centers budget for Only a month when he was Given the Job of finding a place for the volume was huge from the it took hours to print and paste condolences on Flowers then the mail arrived first cards and then boxes in a Range of Estrada  handle the gifts alone and his col leagues were stretched thin As the Campus struggled in the aftermath of the so he scoured the Community and found More than 80 they showed up filling All available Dis play space in the student Center with deliveries of quilts and banners signed by people often feel a need to give As an act of com fort after a but also As a Way to help restore said Brian a Virginia tech professor of religious there was something particularly upsetting about these shootings in this bucolic environment that made people feel particularly he one Way to Ward off evil is to give Estrada remains in Awe of the Speed at which creative expressions were detailed Wear Ings and quilts that seemed like they would take months if not years to make arrived in another task that looms is writing Estrada said the list of givers runs pages in a you could look anywhere in the building and real ize were not he the world Gao criticizes overseas ant terror operations the associated press Washington the state and Homeland Security departments have made Clear that they want to help other countries prevent they Are not nearly As Clear about How they plan to do such Lack of clarity leaves agencies unsure about their inter National responsibilities and May have compromised several coun Ter terror operations according to a government the government accountability office cited in its report several examples of agencies failure to or even to commune during overseas the report credited the Fri for working to recruit More agents into International posts and work ing More closely with foreign agencies to prevent one of the key problems cited in the is that no Agency is in charge of getting everyone to work and if one Agency in not every body agrees on which one it the Justice department said in february that the a part of the Justice was the Lead Agency in charge of terror investigations the report that officials working overseas Law enforcement working groups based at embassies do not function the re port