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/ 20 February 2006
United States astronomers have come up with a short list of five stars in the Milky Way galaxy that are most likely to support extraterrestrial life. The stars were chosen based on criteria including size, composition, age and colour, that would make them similar to the Sun and enable planets resembling Earth to orbit them.
A key transit point for the untold numbers of Africans ripped from their homes and sold into slavery from the 15th century, Saint Louis these days seems blanketed by a collective amnesia. Similar legacies burden much of coastal West Africa, from massive Mauritania to the tiny archipelago of Cape Verde.