WASHINGTON (AP) — Modern humans may have left Africa thousands of years earlier than previously thought, turning right and heading across the Red Sea into Arabia rather than following the…
Day: January 27, 2011
Astronomers claim earliest galaxy yet from Hubble
WASHINGTON (AP) — An international team of astronomers say they’ve glimpsed the earliest galaxy yet, a smudge of light from nearly 13.2 billion years ago – a time when the…
Attitudes to business: Milton Friedman goes on tour
A survey of attitudes to business turns up some intriguing national differencesPUBLIC-RELATIONS folk are not noted for burning the midnight oil over the works of great economists. But Edelman, an…
India: Identifying a billion Indians
Reliable identity numbers could create many opportunities for businessIN A small village north-west of Bangalore, peasants queue for identities. Each man fills in a form with his name and rough…