Search For Adam -4



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That’s how Wales found that 16 million men are cousins. Their Y chromosomes all show the same mutations. That means they are all descendent from one single man, a Central Asian super ancestor. But who was he? Wales and other genetic detectives piece together the clues. The mutations cluster around one place, Mongolia. They trace to almost a thousand years ago.

Scientists believe he must have been a man of power with many sons to pass on his family line. The clues all point to one man, Genghis Khan. The evidence is circumstantial but compelling . Khan's empire/ stretched from Kazakstan to Korea. He ruled the dynasty that lasted generations. His sons and their sons had the power and position to spread his Y chromosome. As his army swept through Central Asia, they cut down their enemies, and often, it’s said, took their women. The result, more offspring with Genghis Khan’s Y chromosome and other men's lineages destroyed forever.

Genghis Khan’s DNA is buried with him in an unknown grave. But his Y chromosome mutations survive in his descendants today. The research shows the Y chromosome can take us back hundreds of years. But to find scientific Adam, we must trace a man from our very beginning who fathered not millions but billions.

The payoff is almost unimaginable. And Adam, who may have been the first truly modern human, whose eon we can pinpoint, whose face we can reconstruct. This is a scientific quest. Yet the idea behind our search was first written down in a document of faith--the Bible. Thousands of years before genetics, the book of Genesis tells of one man who fathered us all. The Bible gives no physical description of Adam, saying only that he is created out of dust in God's image. Adam’s rib provides the raw material for the first woman, Eve. God gives them a home--the Garden of Eden. But soon tempted by a serpent, Adam and Eve eat from the Tree of Knowledge.

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Today's Highlight in History:

On November ninth, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.

On this date:

In 1872, fire destroyed nearly a thousand buildings in Boston.

In 1918, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm the Second announced he would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands.

In 1935, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.

In 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as "Kristallnacht."

In 1953, author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39.

In 1963, twin disasters struck Japan as some 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion, and 160 people died in a train crash.

In 1965, the great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 and a-half hours.

In 1970, former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.

In 1976, the UN General Assembly approved ten resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one characterizing the white-ruled government as "illegitimate."

In 1988, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, a major figure in the Watergate scandal, died in Washington at age 75.
Ten years ago: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a historic non-aggression treaty with Germany, winning praise from German leaders in Bonn for his role in the peaceful fall of the Berlin Wall.

Five years ago: In a pair of telephone interviews, O.J. Simpson told Associated Press reporter Linda Deutsch that people have supported rather than shunned him since his acquittal, and that he has learned that fame and wealth are illusions: "The only thing that endures is character."

One year ago: With fireworks, concerts and a huge party at the landmark Brandenburg Gate, Germany celebrated the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The flight data recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990 was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean and shipped to a National Transportation Safety Board laboratory in Washington.

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"All life is an experiment."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., US Supreme Court justice (1841-1935).

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This is AP News Minute.

A hearing began in Las Vegas to determine if there's enough evidence to OJ Simpson to stand trial on charges of kidnapping, armed robbery and assault. A witness says Simpson burst into the room, demanding sports collectibles. The witness says the man with Simpson pointed the gun in his face.

On Wall Street, the Dow finished down nearly 34 points recovering from more than 200 points drop earlier in the day. The initial slide followed comments by the Fed chairman. The econimic growth will likely slow.

The Senate handed President Bush's frist veto override. Senators voted 79 to 14 on the 23 billion dollar water resources bill. The money goes to restoring the everglade than hundreds of other projects.

A Catholic priest from Boston has been arrested in charge with stalking talk show host Conan O'Brien. Prosecutors say the man wrote threatening notes on parish stationary, contacted the star's parents and showed up at the studio.

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.

Last week we told you about big losses at the Investment Bank Merrill Lynch, but the losses may be even bigger at the nation's biggest bank Citigroup. Citigroup estimate this week that it would take losses of 8 billion to 11 billion dollars on investments on risky housing loans.

Many people who bought houses with subprime mortgages are now unable to pay them back. The estimated write-downs are for the bank's current period October through December. Citygroup says they represent five to seven billion dollars after taxes. The bank reported six and a half billion dollars in credit related losses for the third quarter of the year.

Charles Prince, Citigroup's chief executive officer resigned under pressure on Sunday. He led the New York Based Bank since 2003. He took over for Sanford Weill who builds city into one of the world's largest financial groups. Win Bischoff, chairman of city Europe and British and German citizen will serve as chief executive for now. Former United States Treasury secretary Robert Rubin was named Chairman of the Board. He will help lead the search for a permanent replacement for the CEO.

Charles Prince was the second head of a major bank to be forced out in recent days. Last week Stanley O'Neal resigned at Merrill Lynch after his company reported a loss for the third quarter of over two billion dollars. Merrill Lynch had the write-down eight billion dollar in mortgage related losses. Citigroup announce that it has 55 billion dollars worth of investments directly related to subprime mortgages. Forty-three billions of that is in complex investments called Collateralized Debt Obligation.

A big problem for banks is putting a value on the mortgage related securities that they hold. Investors are no longer interested in trading these securities. This has frozen the market for them. So banks like Citigroup depend on mathematical models to place a value on this complex investments.

Credit rating agencies reacted to this week's bad news. Moody's Investors Service lowers Citigroup's credit rating one level to its third highest rating. Moody's said the expected write-downs would result in a sizable quarterly loss for Citigroup.

And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Mario Ritter. To learn more about the problems with subprime mortgages, go to voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Steve Ember.

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Search For Adam-5



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And are cast out of paradise. Adam and Eve have children and according to the Bible this one family has grown to include everyone on earth today. The new testament gospel of Luke lays out Adam’s family tree generation by generation. But what if we tested someone today who claims to be linked to that lineage. Most of the people the Bible places on Adam’s family tree have disappeared without a trace. Yet one stands out as a significant historical figure, Solomon, the third king of Israel. Even today, there are people who claim to be directly descended from Solomon-the Ethiopian royal family. It seems far fetched. The Jerusalem of Solomon is1500 miles from Ethiopia. But the Ethiopians claim to have an extraordinary piece of physical evidence that ties them to the holy land.

The ark of the covenant was believed to contain the tablets of the ten commandments, the word of / God. Legend says it was kept in a temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem. Until it was taken by Solomon’s son Menelic and later brought to a little church in Axoum in northern Ethiopia. Today the Ethiopian royal family claims direct descent from Menelik and so from Solomon. If that’s true, their family tree connects directly to the biblical lineage of Adam. To test that lineage, we need a royal who'll cooperate.

In 1974, Ethiopia’s emperor Haile Selassie was deposed, the royal family fled into exile. We track down a prince who agreed to participate in our search. On one condition, we can’t reveal his identity. He wants to avoid accusations that he's using his link to Solomon to reclaim the throne. The prince takes a secret DNA test. A few tiny cheek cells transport us deep into the past. The DNA can reveal where the prince’s ancestors came from , could it link him to Solomon? The results are tantalizing.

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