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		GODDESS UPDATES 12 21 2006 More praise for the Goddess 12 05 2006 Minerva reviews The Goddess and the Bull 11 09 2006 Catalhoyuk in Natural History magazine 10 11 2006 Tim Ready 08 31 2006 Catalhoyuk photos 08 31 2006 Catalhoyuk in Natural History magazine 06 02 2006 Balter and Hodder at Heffers Cambridge July 4 05 16 2006 Goddess paperback now available 04 26 2006 Alida Valli 04 11 2006 Left Coast Press unveils new Web site 03 21 2006 save money on the Goddess 03 17 2006 Goddess required text down under 03 15 2006 Using charcoal to reconstruct the past 03 11 2006 Goddess required in Akron 02 27 2006 Andrew Sherratt 02 06 2006 Goddess paperback ready for preorder 02 05 2006 Interview with Michael Balter text version 02 03 2006 Interview with Michael Balter 01 26 2006 Should writers quit their day jobs 01 17 2006 A Marxist look at Catalhoyuk 01 14 2006 The Goddess goes to Delaware NEOLITHIC NEWS 12 06 2006 Andrew Sherratt Trust 12 05 2006 Bruce Trigger 11 09 2006 Catalhoyuk 360 degrees 09 09 2006 More bad news on Iraqi antiquities 09 06 2006 Iraq's archaeological heritage in grave danger 08 09 2006 Catalhoyuk on the BBC 06 22 2006 The Archaeology Channel focuses on India 05 02 2006 Continued controversy over unprovenanced antiquities 04 25 2006 Ancient Bulgarian town on Archaeology Channel 04 12 2006 Hohokam on The Archaeology Channel 04 11 2006 Iraq Antiquities Find Sparks Controversy 03 31 2006 Was crop domestication fast or slow 03 28 2006 Controversy over Levy-White donation to NYU 03 16 2006 Catalhoyuk 2005 archive report 03 10 2006 Andrew Sherratt obituary in the Times (London) 03 07 2006 Machteld Mellink obituary 03 06 2006 Andrew Sherratt obituary 03 01 2006 Lost kingdom of Tambora 02 27 2006 Machteld Mellink 01 27 2006 When did dog become (hu)man's best friend 01 22 2006 Catalhoyuk in the Smithsonian magazine 01 17 2006 conservation at Catalhoyuk 01 10 2006 Phoenician harbors discovered 01 07 2006 Africa's earliest bananas HOMINID HIGHLIGHTS 12 23 2006 Neurons that make us human 12 19 2006 Humans can smell 12 12 2006 Lactose tolerance arose independently in Africa 12 08 2006 New age for Little Foot australopithecine 12 05 2006 How bird flu could come to America 11 28 2006 Whales are well wired 11 23 2006 Inside the Neandertal tooth 11 21 2006 Chimps Go Ape Over Older Females 11 16 2006 Neandertal genome, the movie 11 15 2006 Neanderthal DNA 11 10 2006 Hominid gourmands 11 09 2006 A gorilla link to AIDS 11 08 2006 Fevers may be good for you 11 07 2006 Did Modern Humans Get a Brain Gene from Neandertals 11 04 2006 Looking for smarts between the genes 11 03 2006 Speaking in tongues 10 11 2006 Pollinators Power Flower Evolution 09 26 2006 More on the Hobbit's evolutionary affinities 09 21 2006 Lucy's child 09 12 2006 Humans and hurricanes 09 09 2006 Are we alone 09 08 2006 Cleanliness and Godliness 09 07 2006 The science behind high protein diets 09 07 2006 Chimps really care after all 09 01 2006 More genes more brainy 08 28 2006 Hobbit skeptics fail to convince many researchers 08 22 2006 Hobbit skeptics have their day 08 18 2006 Humans and hurricanes 08 17 2006 Another human brain evolution gene 08 13 2006 Judith Lengyel 08 11 2006 Greenland ice melting even faster 08 03 2006 Lucy 30 years later 07 28 2006 Anxiety in the brain 07 22 2006 Actions speak louder than words 07 21 2006 Sequencing the gibbon genome 07 20 2006 More on epigenetics 07 14 2006 Class in session at Meerkat Manor 07 13 2006 Making sense of nonsense 07 06 2006 Rewired for consciousness 06 27 2006 Numbers on the brain 06 24 2006 Old beads suggest early use of symbols 06 20 2006 Mind reading starts early 06 16 2006 Possible hazards of nano particles 06 14 2006 The spices of life 06 14 2006 Shyness and the brain 06 13 2006 Coffee good for alcoholic livers 06 09 2006 The bilingual brain 06 03 2006 Face blindness 06 01 2006 Hobbit tools 05 25 2006 Mendel's Laws Foiled Again 05 19 2006 Apes plan ahead 05 18 2006 Balter Gets Honorable Mention 05 17 2006 Feel Free to Move About the Cabin 05 11 2006 Humans responsible or not for mass extinctions 05 10 2006 The evolution of the cactus 05 09 2006 Who's that dolphin 05 09 2006 Atapuerca video on the Web 05 02 2006 Evolution Gets Hot and Steamy 04 28 2006 Progress on Marburg virus vaccine 04 18 2006 How bats got off the ground 04 14 2006 Doubts about new obesity gene 04 13 2006 Science versus religion 04 12 2006 Inheritance is More than Gene Deep 04 08 2006 Gender differences in the brain 04 01 2006 Ever seen a fat gibbon 03 21 2006 A genetic component to violence 01 30 2006 One small genetic change makes earwax wet or dry 01 24 2006 Human molecular clock ticks more slowly 01 07 2006 Are We Descended From Cannibals CIVILIZATION'S DISCONTENTS 12 29 2006 Names of the Dead - New York Times 12 28 2006 Names of the Dead - New York Times 12 27 2006 Names of the Dead - New York Times 12 26 2006 Juan Cole Top Ten Iraq Myths 12 25 2006 Names of the Dead - New York Times 12 23 2006 Neurons that make us human 12 23 2006 Names of the Dead - New York Times 12 22 2006 Names of the Dead - New York Times 12 21 2006 Names of the Dead - New York Times 12 21 2006 Antiwar soldiers the full story 12 20 2006 Names of the Dead - New York Times 12 20 2006 Legal lynching in Libya 12 20 2006 Chris Hedges on Israel's war on Gaza 12 18 2006 Names of the Dead - New York Times 12 15 2006 Names of the Dead - New York Times 12 15 2006 Antiwar soldiers speak out 12 14 2006 Where are the anti-war protests 12 14 2006 Names of the Dead - New York Times 12 13 2006 Names of the dead 12 13 2006 More on Pinochet's death 12 12 2006 Names of the dead 12 12 2006 Isabel Allende on the Pinochet coup 12 12 2006 Christopher Hitchens gets it right on Pinochet 12 11 2006 Names of the dead 12 11 2006 Farewell to a torturer in chief 12 10 2006 The bubble boy in the oval office 12 10 2006 Pinochet dead, let us rejoice but also reflect 12 10 2006 Names of the dead 12 09 2006 Names of the dead 12 09 2006 Iraq's National Library and Archive has closed 12 08 2006 The Iraq Study Group 12 08 2006 The Baker report and Iraq's oil 12 08 2006 Names of the dead 12 07 2006 Robert Gates confirmation hearings 12 07 2006 Names of the dead 12 07 2006 Global warming bad for marine life 12 07 2006 Daily life in Iraq, the diary of the national archives director 12 06 2006 Will the Democrats get us out of Iraq 12 06 2006 Iraq uncensored 12 05 2006 Hitchens on using the word nigger 12 02 2006 Reporting from Iraq, oral histories of journalists 12 02 2006 Is Iraq in a civil war 12 02 2006 Blaming the Iraqis 12 01 2006 Reading Lolita in Tehran 11 29 2006 Scientific fraud, the verdict on Science 11 23 2006 Phil Ochs I Ain't Marching Anymore 11 22 2006 The growing toll of AIDS 11 22 2006 Kucinich says cut off Iraq war funding 11 17 2006 Money money money 11 15 2006 Does the Baker commission really have a clue 11 09 2006 Electoral setback for intelligent design 11 07 2006 The dangers of jetlag 09 26 2006 Israel's cluster bombs part II 09 24 2006 Stating the obvious on Iraq and terrorism 09 23 2006 The right needs to do some navel gazing 09 23 2006 Israel's wanton disregard for civilian casualties 09 20 2006 Israel's cluster bombs 09 19 2006 Why it's not okay to throw away the Constitution 09 12 2006 Words of wisdom on the terrorist threat 09 12 2006 The wisdom of Dick Cheney 09 09 2006 No Iraq-al Qaeda ties 09 09 2006 Is terrorist threat overblown 09 07 2006 Where were the CIA prisons 09 07 2006 Legalizing torture 09 05 2006 Prisoners of the Mideast 09 01 2006 A Murrow moment on MSNBC 08 31 2006 Where is the anti-war movement 08 28 2006 It's the economy stupid 08 23 2006 Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes 08 21 2006 Clinton should debate Tasini 08 14 2006 Free speech in America 08 13 2006 Dear Mr. President 08 13 2006 A left dissent from left critiques of the media 08 12 2006 Helping out your enemy Mideast style 08 11 2006 Lebanon Hezbollah and the left 08 10 2006 Words of wisdom on Israel-Lebanon 08 10 2006 Israeli actions make things worse 08 10 2006 A Republican dissent from cheerleading for Israel 08 08 2006 Hezbollah and Lebanon's future 08 07 2006 Why I won't be voting for Hillary 08 07 2006 An Israeli voice against the current madness 08 03 2006 Who is Hezbollah 08 02 2006 Israel's responsibilities for its actions 07 30 2006 Massacre at Qana, history revisited 07 28 2006 An alternative history of the Mideast crisis 07 27 2006 The roots of the Mideast conflict 07 22 2006 Don't call it torture 07 20 2006 Shameful Democratic pandering on Israel 07 19 2006 Israel bombs anything that moves 07 14 2006 Fair trials and Guantanamo 07 13 2006 A view from Israel 07 09 2006 Sing along with the NSA 07 07 2006 Racist extremists in Iraq 07 06 2006 Corals in danger from CO2 06 29 2006 Hopeless Hillary 06 28 2006 Burning that flag 06 26 2006 Playing politics with Iraq and people's lives 06 22 2006 Hillary a no show on Iraq 06 19 2006 NASA puts safety last 06 18 2006 Anti-war activists smeared in NY Times 06 03 2006 Henry Siegman 06 01 2006 UK university boycott of Israeli scholars 05 10 2006 Department of Propaganda 05 07 2006 What we do and don't know about Iran's nukes 05 06 2006 Winning hearts and minds in Iraq 04 27 2006 Blair's troubles 04 20 2006 Catholic pedophile ring Los Angeles update 04 19 2006 Scott McClellan resigns 04 14 2006 The generals speak out at last 04 12 2006 Mobile weapons labs in Iraq, not 04 08 2006 Did Bush leak or declassify 04 06 2006 The immigration debate 04 05 2006 American reporting on France 04 04 2006 It isn't nice to block the doorway 04 02 2006 Once more on Jill Carroll to get it out of my system 04 02 2006 Jill Carroll's statement 04 02 2006 Jill Carroll's statement 03 31 2006 Jill Carroll 03 23 2006 impeachment is a loser 03 22 2006 Did U.S. Marines massacre civilians in Iraq 03 21 2006 Is Bush stupid, ignorant, a liar or all three 03 19 2006 France takes to the streets 03 16 2006 Student revolt in France 03 15 2006 The pundits and the war in Iraq 03 14 2006 Wesley Clark on Milosevic 03 14 2006 Could September 11 have been prevented 03 11 2006 Death of Milosevic 03 10 2006 Jill Carroll media campaign in Iraq 03 09 2006 Catholic pedophile ring update 02 12 2006 ex CIA official charges intelligence data distorted 02 05 2006 wiretapping deja vu 01 30 2006 NSA spying is illegal say legal scholars 01 28 2006 Craig Murray and torture in Uzbekistan 01 27 2006 NSA spying, the press, and the constitution 01 25 2006 Google versus Google 01 23 2006 George Bush and Jack Abramoff 01 22 2006 Committee to Protect Journalists on Jill Carroll 01 20 2006 Jill Carroll update site from CSM 01 20 2006 A tribute to Jill Carroll 01 18 2006 Jill Carroll update 01 17 2006 More on journalists in Iraq 01 17 2006 Jill Carroll 01 16 2006 Palestinian elections and Hamas 01 15 2006 Pakistan air strikes 01 14 2006 East Jerusalem report suppressed