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Donald C. Johanson is director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University...
...idea that a comet or asteroid might be bearing down on Earth--as in Deep Impact and Armageddon--can be traced to this crusading geologist. Probing Arizona's Meteor Crater in 1956, Shoemaker found a form of quartz that is created only by tremendous impacts. Finding the same telltale mineral in other craters, he concluded that they had been formed not by volcanoes, as most scientists thought, but by large objects hitting Earth. It was only a matter of time, he said, before Earth would be struck again. So he launched the first organized search for big incoming objects, recruiting...
...Barrett took time to boast of the history of female leadership and the current female-dominated executive branch in Arizona's state government. Women hold the positions of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer and school superintendent...
...more demonstration of our `nimbility.' We roll with the punches and make do with what we've got," said Barrett, Republican candidate for governor of Arizona in 1994 and IOP fellow...
Barrett took time to boast of the history of female leadership and the current female-dominated executive branch in Arizona's state government. Women hold the positions of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer and school superintendent...