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After analyzing ancient gas bubbles trapped in amber, geologists have identified a new culprit for the disappearance of the dinosaurs: bad air. The theorists calculate that the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere fell from 35% to 28% over the course of 500,000 years and suggest that the dinosaurs' respiratory systems were unable to adapt to the change...
...anointment of Tina Brown as editor of the New Yorker magazine reflected an attempt at repositioning meant to regain the confidence of straying advertisers. The appointment was also meant to reinvigorate a magazine which had grown indulgent and uncertain of its constituency and its style, preserved in the cultural amber...
...Amber L. Keasey '94 just wanted to do a little thesis research during the summer. Examining and recording the mating habits of fish in the Great Barrier Reef seemed a safe enough project, but little did she know it would be hazardous to her health...
When we sit down to read a book or watch a movie, we allow the author or director a certain latitude. We allow that conspiracies of which we have never heard actually run the world, or that DNA trapped in the stomachs of amber-coated insects can be used to create real-life dinosaurs from frog genes. These little lies permit us to be entertained by the author's imagination...
Scientists have extracted tiny fragments of DNA from a weevil that lived at least 120 million years ago, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. Like the dino-blood-carrying insect in the new movie Jurassic Park, the weevil was trapped and preserved in tree resin that hardened into amber. The weevil will not be cloned, however...