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National war crimes tribunal in Guatemala says:
The word muxuk refers to a woman who has been
‘desecrated,’ a woman whose ‘social and spiritual world was
destroyed and broken in all of the areas of her life.’ In the
Q’eqchi’ language, there are four ways to refer to sexual violence,
Amber-trapped lizard fossils reveal lost world:
Lizards locked in amber for 99 million years
give a glimpse of a ‘lost world,’ say scientists. The ancient
reptiles are preserved in ‘superb detail’ down to scales of skin,
the tip of a tongue and tiny claws. Two of the fossils are related
to modern-day chameleons and geckos, revealing how features such as
sticky toe-pads evolved.
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