Terrorist Threat: Adding More Names to Watch Lists Isn’t Change, It’s a Step Back Adding more names to the government’s terrorism watch lists as a way to prevent another underwear bomber, as President Obama promised to do Thursday, won’t work. It will only make things worse. It’s the anti-terrorism equivalent of the D.C. cliché of throwing money at a problem — far short of what we’d expect from the country’s first high-tech president. Hominids Went Out of Africa on Rafts Human ancestors that left Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago to see the rest of the world were no landlubbers. Stone hand axes unearthed on the Mediterranean island of Crete indicate that an ancient Homo species — perhaps Homo erectus — had used rafts or other seagoing vessels to cross from northern Africa to Europe via at least some of the larger islands in between, says archaeologist Thomas Strasser of Providence College in Rhode Island. Several hundred double-edged cutting implements discovered at nine sites in southwestern Crete date to at least 130,000 years ago and probably much earlier, Strasser reported January 7 at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Archaeology. Many of these finds closely resemble hand axes fashioned in Africa about 800,000 years ago by H. erectus, he says. It was around that time that H. erectus spread from Africa to parts of Asia and Europe.

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