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VIENNA, Va., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Spear, Inc. (Spear), a leading provider of IT solutions and management consulting services to the federal government, announced today the appointment of Kelly Harris as the Director of Corporate Development. Joining a strong team of talented and dedicated individuals committed to ensuring the success of Spear and its customers, Kelly will develop and implement innovative marketing and communications programs to build the Spear brand....

DENVER, Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, you've probably seen a few of cinema's favorite Christmas classics over the holiday season. Spear Security Inc., trusted name in a wide-array of security services since 1991, believes its security management skills could have prevented many of film's most notorious Christmas crimes. With a wide-reaching and personalized security patrol, Spear Security can make any home, business, industrial space, or...

Unique arm morphology in Neanderthals was likely caused by scraping activities such as hide preparation, not spear thrusting as previously theorized, according to research published July 18 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. The researchers, led by Colin Shaw of the University of Cambridge, took muscle measurements of modern men performing three different spear thrusting tasks and four different scraping tasks. They found that muscle activity was significantly higher on the left side of...

The wound that ultimately killed a Neandertal man between 50,000 and 75,000 years was most likely caused by a thrown spear, the kind modern humans used but Neandertals did not, according to Duke University-led research."What we've got is a rib injury, with any number of scenarios that could explain it," said Steven Churchill, an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke. "We're not suggesting there was a blitzkrieg, with modern humans marching across the land and...