Genographic scientists uncover new piece of Phoenician legacy (PhysOrg)
The Phoenicians gave the world the alphabet and a love of the color purple, and a research study published today by Genographic scientists in the American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG-D-08-00725R2) shows that they left some people their genes as well. The study finds that as many as one in 17 men in the Mediterranean basin may have a Phoenician as a direct male-line ancestor.

The #1 Reason Consumers Sell Their Structured Settlements Is to Pay Bills, According to Survey by J.G. Wentworth (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BRYN MAWR, Pa.----As many as 60% of consumers selling their legal settlements do so to pay bills, according to a recent customer survey conducted by J.G. Wentworth, a specialty finance company that has been purchasing structured settlements since 1992.

Small islands given short shrift in assembling archaeological record (EurekAlert!)
( University of Florida ) Small islands dwarf large ones in archaeological importance, says a University of Florida researcher, who found that people who settled the Caribbean before Christopher Columbus preferred more minute pieces of land because they relied heavily on the sea.