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...disease theory has gotten another boost, in the form of a book titled What Bugged the Dinosaurs, from the Princeton University Press. Authors George and Roberta Poinar (George is a zoologist at Oregon State University and a former World Health Organization consultant on infectious disease) specialize in ancient insects preserved in amber (a key plot element in the movie Jurassic Park) and also in fossilized dinosaur poop. Among other things in their lode, they've found ticks, nematodes, biting flies and all sorts of other nasties, including intestinal parasites, dating back to the Cretaceous period. From some of the insects...
This summer, Alicia G. Harley ’08 investigated the possible environmental, economic, and social effects of different proposals to alleviate sprawl around Cairo, an ancient city facing the paradoxes of modern urban development...
...team’s December loss to New Hampshire is ancient history, as the Crimson (14-1-0, 11-0-0 ECAC) has opened 2008 with three dominating victories. Now, coming off of back-to-back shutouts of Colgate (4-0) and Boston College (7-0), Harvard will look to preserve its undefeated conference record this weekend at St. Lawrence (14-6-0, 7-1-0 ECAC) and Clarkson (14-4-2, 5-3-0 ECAC...
...writing of history is one of the great legacies of the ancient Greeks, and its earliest masters, Herodotus and Thucydides, are as central to the foundations of Western civilization as Homer, Socrates and Sophocles. In more modern times, multivolume sagas of crumbling empires, explosive revolutions and nations nudging toward greatness were huge best sellers, making historians like Edward Gibbon, Thomas Macaulay and Thomas Carlyle as well known as Stephen King and John Grisham are today...
...Green team with just two wins to its name stormed into Lavietes Pavilion Saturday night and, with the Crimson’s 2007 Ivy League championship banner hanging in the rafters, beat the team to beat in 2008. With a 52-47 victory over Harvard, Dartmouth showed that the Ancient Eight title is up for grabs...