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When dinosaurs vanished abruptly 65 million years ago, they left an enduring mystery-and created a scientific parlor game. Hypotheses abound to explain the extinction. Brains too small in bodies too large? Emerging mammals feasting on dinosaur eggs? Now comes evidence for another possibility. Geologist Walter Alvarez, probing an ocean canyon near Gubbio, Italy, discovered an abrupt increase in iridium in a limestone layer dating back to the dinosaurs' demise. Probable cause: some mysterious, still unfathomable extraterrestrial event...
Indeed, the treasure seems to abound with unexpected nuggets of history. One of the graves has yielded a coin that totally baffles the archaeologists; it could be evidence of a semi-mythical Indo-Parthian kingdom thought to have existed in the area. Another of the skeletons shows strong Greek religious influence. Stuck between the teeth is a coin, symbolic payment to the boatman who ferries the dead across the River Styx to the Underworld...
Shared solutions to the shared problem of energy will not come easily, however, because national and regional differences abound. First, relative dependence on imported oil varies widely, from Japan's virtually total reliance to Canada's relative self-sufficiency. So does consumption: Japan and Italy thriftily burn only about 16 bbl. per capita a year, while the U.S. devours a profligate...
...Signs abound that Americans are losing patience with the Administration's weekly parade of officials to testify before congressional committees on "scapegoat of the week" questions, like whether it is the oil companies or the gasoline retailers, or even Government bungling itself, that is to blame for the energy pinch. In a remarkable press conference last week, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger expressed optimism about gasoline supplies for the remainder of the summer on the basis of a one-week increase in foreign oil imports. Yet almost in the next sentence, he was attacking the oil industry for not refining...
...ironies abound. Four years after the strike, Gill was exposed as a paid informer for the Central Intelligence Agency...