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Vast stretches of Central Asia feel eerily uninhabited. Fly at 30,000 feet over... Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan -- and there are long moments when no town or road or field is visible from your window. Wandering bands and tribes roamed this immense area for 5,000 years, herding goat, sheep, cattle, and horses across immense steppes, through narrow valleys, and over high snowy passes. They left occasional tombs that survived the ages, and on rare occasions settled down and built towns or even cities. But for the most part, these peoples left behind few physical traces of their origins, beliefs, or ways...

There is a planned Third World War, which will be nuclear and biological. Our source believes that this is on track to be initiated within the next 18-24 months. • It is planned to begin with a strike by Israel on Iran. Either Iran or China will be provoked into a nuclear response. After a brief nuclear exchange, there will be a ceasefire. The world will be thrown into fear and chaos - all carefully engineered. • The extreme state of tension will be used to justify heavy social and military controls in all western first world nations. Plans are...

Archaeologists digging in northern Iran have unearthed evidence that the ancient people who lived there were skilled horsemen. Reports from Iran suggest studies of the pelvises and leg bones of skeletons recovered from excavations in the Gohar Tappeh region had taken on a special shape as a result of a lot of horse-riding. Ali Mahforouzi, who heads the archaeology team... noted that many horse statuettes, some shaped like drinking vessels, had been unearthed among the ruins of the area's religious monuments. The archaeological dig, comprising Iranian, German and Polish experts, is providing researchers with a rare opportunity to study human...

It would be easy to jump on the bandwagon when it comes to the subject of illegal immigration-but whose bandwagon should I jump on, and where is it headed?

BERKELEY, Calif. -- The number of freshman heading off to college this fall in the University of California system will be at an all-time high. Asian-Americans top the list of freshman with 19,896. U-C officials say more than 55-thousand students who applied were accepted, a new record for the system. This fall's record admission beat last year's, which was also a record, by about ten percent. Officials say a relatively stable state funding situation meant U-C was able to follow a tradition of finding a place somewhere in the system for all students who met eligibility requirements. Students have until...

Aryans In India: Old Debate Triggers New Debate New Delhi, Nov 11 (UNI) An Ancient India historian today said his remarks on academic debate over Aryan invasion were torn out of context by the Director of the New Delhi-based National Council of Educational Research and Training. ''He should read my book,'' Prof D N Jha said, commenting on a suggestion by Prof J S Rajput that his remarks perhaps implied a shift from the theory of Aryans' foreign origin. Prof Rajput's suggestion came in a statement voicing satisfaction over scholars' ''professional'' remarks on the publication of the Council textbook on...