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NEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCEN Paleolithic period. The anthropologists told the Venezuelan daily “Economia Hoy” that people were already living in the Americas long before the Homo sapi- ens arrived on the continent, presum- ably after having crossed the Berring Strait. After years of work, the anthropolo- gists found a set of tools and artifacts which led them to challenge the univer- sally-accepted thesis on the origins of the first American man. said. The new compound, mainly made up of carbon fibres, is coated with ceramic material, the industrial daily said. Conventional heat-resisting material can withstand temperatures of up to 1,700 C, it said. The surface temperature of a space plane, such as the space shuttle of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), rises to a maximum of 1,700 C when it reenters the earth’s atmosphere, the daily said. The major heavy machinery maker plans to announce the details of the new material at a symposium on ther- mal engineering in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 10, the daily said. (Source: Federal Information & News Dispatch; accessed via MUFONET, USA) The Venezuelan anthropologists have sent a sample of the excavated tools to the “Max Plank Institute” in Germany, where scientists all over the world send newly discovered ancient materials to determine their prehistoric age. ”We do not claim to know for sure that men in the Americas have the same age as the Cro-Magnon, but we say that they came in successive waves thou- sands of years ago while taking advan- tage of the different favourable geo- graphic conditions produced during the interglacial stages,” they said. (Source: MUFONET-BBS GROUP - MUFONET-BBS NETWORK According to anthropology books, the first men who came to America from Asia were fully evolved with a culture belonging to the upper Paleolithic period. Szabadics and Jimenez said the tools found belonged to more primitive men. It is impossible for these men to have developed their techniques in 30,000 years while the evolution period for the Cro-Magnon in Europe reached 1.5 million years, they said. Other scientists have done research on the possibility of life in the Americas during this period, but their only bases for this thesis are favourable weather and travel conditions during the interglacial periods, the experts ISHIKAWAJIMA-HARIMA MAKES NEW MATERIAL ABLE TO WITHSTAND 2,100 DEGREES CELSIUS A HIGH-TECH KIND OF NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH years while the evolution period for the DEE Ele The NSW Police and National Crime Cro-Magnon in Europe reached 1.5 TOKYO (JUNE 8) PACIFIC RIM Authority have joined forces to create a million years, they said. NEWS NETWORK - Ishikawajima- new division known as The Other scientists have done research Harima Heavy Industries Co. has Technology Services Unit. The new on the possibility of life in the developed a material capable of with- division is equipped with state-of-the- Americas during this period, but their standing a temperature of 2,100 degrees art surveillance equipment, including only bases for this thesis are favourable _ Celsius, which it said will be used fora advanced photographic, audio and visu- weather and travel conditions during space plane, the Nippon Kogyo al information gathering devices. the interglacial periods, the experts Shimbun reported. Based in a secret location in Sydney, — the division is staffed by NSW Police and NCA Officers. When announcing the formation of the unit, Police Minister Ted Pickering stated that he could not reveal informa- tion on the type of equipment they would employ,commenting only that their duties would include tasks like “bugging a person's room, taking pho- tographs of a crime scene, and James Bond-type things.” An expert from a similar division of the Hong Kong Police Department spent a year assist- ing the NSW Police review their tech- nological "needs." Police Helicopters are now also being fitted with Forward Looking Infrared Thermal Imaging Cameras that can track cars by homing in on their engine heat in pitch darkness, or detect the body heat of one person hiding in hectares of bush. (Sources: Sunday Telegraph 4th August 1991; Telegraph Mirror ] 1th November 1991) TOKYO (JUNE 8) PACIFIC RIM NEWS NETWORK - Ishikawajima- Harima Heavy Industries Co. has developed a material capable of with- standing a temperature of 2,100 degrees Celsius, which it said will be used for a space plane, the Nippon Kogyo Shimbun reported. 52¢NEXUS OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1992