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...example, was only 40% complete). Once the skeleton is fully excavated in a year or so, experts should be able to pin down the relative sizes of different body parts and see just which of the creature's features were apelike and which were human. It is, says paleontologist Alan Walker of Pennsylvania State University, "perhaps one of the best finds ever...
...bacteria to volatile organic compounds like formaldehyde. A 1996 Cornell University study found the problem was even worse: in every one of 35 buildings surveyed for the study, at least 20% of the occupants had experienced symptoms. "It's very difficult to find a problem-free building," says Dr. Alan Hedge, author of the Cornell study and co-author of the book Keeping Buildings Healthy (John Wiley & Sons...
...rated airborne spore counts inside the building as "normal" compared with those outside. Reviewing this record, Dr. David Straus of Texas Tech University's Health Sciences Center observed, "There's nothing normal about Stachybotrys. It produces a bad toxin. That's all I can say." Moreover, argues Cornell's Alan Hedge, the inspectors "only took air samples on one day, and fungi don't produce spores all the time. Typically, you [sample] over a series of days." Testing for mycotoxins and bacterial endotoxins, experts agree, might have told a different story...
Meanwhile, as philanthropy becomes more strategic, the old human-services standbys--like hospitals, homeless shelters and soup kitchens--have had to scramble for support. The Jenjo Foundation, created and run by actor Alan Alda's family, focuses specifically on nonprofits that work with poor women and children. "We tend to fund organizations that will help people get on their feet," says Elizabeth Alda O'Heaney, 38, the family's second daughter, "rather than just give someone a handout for a meal." The family visits prospective grantee's sites, closely vets budgets and interviews local community members. Says O'Heaney: "Whether...
...Princeton Professor of Economics Alan S. Blinder, one of the speakers at the Princeton protest, said he estimates opponents of impeachment outnumber supporters on campus by a ratio of about...