Hawaiians argue over ancestry
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In Hawaii, where blood and ancestry matter as in no other state, a legal challenge is posing this question: Who is sufficiently Hawaiian?
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By BOB LEWIS  RICHMOND, Va. - A day after being asked in a debate about his immigrant mother's heritage, Sen. George Allen fired back in a written statement Tuesday confirming his Jewish ancestry.
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Jakarta - A leading Indonesian scientist on Saturday challenged the widely publicised theory that fossilised bones found on the eastern island of Flores were from a previously unknown species of human.
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Scientists from across Asia will launch a genetic study of the region's people in an attempt to learn why some ethnic groups are more prone to certain diseases.
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A debate over an anthropologist's book on ancient Hebrew history isn't just academic &#151; it's spilled over into an online dispute between critics trying to keep her from getting tenure and supporters who say the effort stifles scholarly freedom.
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A dispute over how heavily to weigh family ties in future immigration is re-emerging as the Senate resumes debate this week over legislation giving legal status to millions of unlawful immigrants.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.
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The inclusion of a prize for Hawaiian music in this year's Grammys has prompted a debate over what qualifies for the category.
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Native Hawaiians should regain some of the self-governance powers lost when the islands' queen was overthrown more than a century ago, the House decided Wednesday
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In the US the two religious groups, historically at odds, find new opportunities for dialogue and understanding.
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Once again, rivalry between Fiji's ethnic Indian community and indigenous islanders leads to a coup in the South Pacific nation
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's taped comment that Cubans and Puerto Ricans are feisty because of their mixed black and Latino "blood" set the blood of some Democrats boiling, but others say it's no big deal.
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People are less alike than scientists had thought when it comes to the billions of building blocks that make up each individual's DNA, according to a new analysis.
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More than 120,000 Japanese-Americans were ordered into internment camps during World War II, but despite their large numbers, few in the territory of Hawaii were forced to leave their homes.
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Palaeontologists have fired a new round in a verbal battle over the Neanderthals, the hominids who were our closest evolutionary cousins before they met a strange and possibly tragic end.