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All I want for Christmas is a baby woolly mammoth
PETER FROST shares his note to Santa. He says he’s been a very good boy and tells Santa what he wants for Christmas
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ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
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THE woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) were enormous tusked beasts, the last of a whole range of species of mammoths which roamed the Earth between 4,000 and 400,000 years ago.
Isolated populations survived on St Paul Island, Alaska, until about 6,400 years ago and in Russia until just 4,000 years ago. The Ice Age trapped at least 150 million mammoths in the many glaciers left by that period.
Over many years a few really well preserved skeletons would emerge from the glaciers. Russian traders sold the ivory tusks and teeth all over the world.
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