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Source: Vanity Fair magazine - July 2007
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/07/genographic200707
Somewhere between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago, Africa saved Homo sapiens from extinction. Charting the DNA shared by more than six billion people, a population geneticist—and director of the Genographic Project—suggests what humanity "owes" its first home.
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Paris Hilton thinks West Africa is a country
Paris Hilton was in South Africa over the weekend with her boyfriend, Benji Madden, for his band Good Charlotte’s tour. She finally did some of that charity work she was contemplating during her stint in jail for DUI and parole violations. Paris spent a whole two hours at an orphanage on Friday.R. Kelly To Turn Life Around In Africa
From child pornography, to a humanitarian tour in Africa. That's one way to clear your name! R.Matt Damon: Africa Trip Was Life-Changing
was on his 2006, six-day "listening and learning trip" to Zambia with his sculptor-artist brother Kyle that caused Matt Damon to see "the world water crisis is one of the most important public health issues of our time," PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive tells Conde Nast Traveler for its September issue. Establishing the H2O Africa Foundation, Damon, 37, hopes the work he's done will now inspire others to do the same. "I think many of our problems would be solved if people had thick passports," he says.Celine Dion brings her son to Africa to show him how lucky he has it
Celine Dion is an interesting lady. Her professional life is all about glamour, grand gestures and lots of fanfare. She just finished a four-year, multi-million-dollar stint performing in Las Vegas, where she had a specially-built performance hall just for her show.Oprah Winfrey Makes Secret Trip to South Africa
Oprah Winfrey paid a secret visit Sunday to her elite Leadership Academy Girls School in South Africa, which has been embroiled with abuse allegations after a 12-year-old pupil aired claims of misconduct. "The meeting went well. It took about two hours, and I appreciate that Oprah took time to listen," the girl's father told PEOPLE exclusively.Explaining the African Vote: Your Stimulus $ at work
Your Stimulus Money at Work?
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Grant: $233,825 - National Science Foundation - Jul. 19, 2009 -
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Despite pouring millions of dollars into programs to further the democratization of Africa, donors remain uninformed about one of the most important facets of politics on the continent: Why do Africans vote they way they do?
SAfrican ministry says Semenya to keep gold medal
ILE - This is an Aug. 28, 2009, file photo showing South African runner Caster Semenya, center, surrounded by local children at her welcome home celebration at the Masehlong village in Moletjie, South Africa. Semenya says she isn't comfortable with her fame since her world championship title was obscured by gender-test revelations.
JENNIFER HUDSON GOING TO TRY OUT ACTING
Actress Jennifer Hudson an Oscar winner for the movie Dreamgirls is a famous actress and is going play a role of Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie in a movie. Mandela played a very important role in freeing her husband after 27 years in jail but has been linked to a murder. The director of the movie is a South African film maker Darrell Roodt.
Maersk Alabama repels 2nd pirate attack with guns
By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer Jason Straziuso, Associated Press Writer – 32 mins ago
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NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.
A U.S. surveillance plane was monitoring the ship as it continued to its destination on the Kenyan coast, while a pirate said that the captain of a ship hijacked Monday with 28 North Korean crew members on board had died of wounds.
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