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Rechul won the heavyweight match with a 10-2 major decision over Matt Bogumil, and El-Hayek picked up three points for the Crimson on a 2-1 decision over Alejandro Alvarez...
...know--or think we know--how the dinosaurs perished: some 65 million years ago, a giant asteroid or comet struck the earth, spewing huge amounts of dust and debris into the air. That dust, according to a widely accepted theory first proposed by Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez, was circulated by the winds and enshrouded the earth for months, blocking sunlight and causing temperatures to plummet. As a result, the dinosaurs, and 70% of all other terrestrial species, were wiped...
...have remained suspended in the air for many months. The finer particles that stayed airborne would not have blocked enough sunlight to cause mass extinctions. Pope speculates instead that soot from the worldwide conflagrations, sulfate aerosols and other impact phenomena were to blame. His findings prompted such headlines as ALVAREZ TEAM WAS WRONG and DUST DIDN'T DO IT, and heartened the relatively few scientists who still contest the Alvarez theory. Others, however, dispute Pope's analysis and say his methodology was faulty. While acknowledging other contributory factors, they still believe dust was the major component of the sun-blocking...
...year-old author Al Alvarez, whose memoir, Where Did It All Go Right?, will be published next year, the tragedy of Sept. 11 will have a beneficial effect if it reawakens writers to the emotional power of fiction. "I think we are done with post-post modernism and the novel-within-the-novel. There is no room for these intellectual games now. As Freud put it around 1919, speaking of all the men's lives lost in World War I and how shallow the world had seemed before then: 'Life has become interesting again. It has recovered its full content...
Watching his understated performance as a waiter in Big Night prompted actress and producer Salma Hayek to cast Anthony in her forthcoming Showtime production of Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies. He plays the small but pivotal role of Lio, a political activist in the Dominican Republic during Trujillo's regime. "When I met him, I knew he was perfect for the role," says Hayek. "Lio, like Marc, has this larger-than-life spirit that can convince you anything is possible." The film was shot in Veracruz, Mexico, with an all-Latin cast and director...