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...Paul Berkeley, the president of the Allston Civic Association, says the perception of any action Harvard takes in the Allston community will surely be colored by the 1997 deal...
Instead, suggests Carl Swisher, a dating expert from the Berkeley (Calif.) Geochronology Center and co-author of the Science paper, wanderlust may simply have been part of H. erectus' personality. The species evolved some 2 million years ago, and armed with a larger brain and body than its predecessor, H. habilis, "it was probably changing its range and its living habitat almost immediately," says Swisher. H. erectus also developed a more carnivorous appetite and probably moved to follow game. "As soon as they lost this dependency on vegetation," says Alan Walker, a Pennsylvania State University paleoanthropologist, "they changed their lifestyle...
...film that captures the joy and awe of shows like Quidam, Mystere and O by placing Cirque du Soleil's most enthralling acts in natural settings: a bungee ballet in a forest; a living-statue duet in a Renaissance pool; the graceful intricacy of swimmers locking into Busby Berkeley designs underwater in the Bahamas. The performers' precision and daring touch the viewer, and not just because Journey is in 3-D. Here are humans achieving the impossible, beautifully, in a film worthy of being displayed on a screen eight stories high...
...Philips dates his passion for wine to the Passover tables of his childhood, where "wine was the one thing forbidden to the kids." By the time he was in his teens, he was taking tasting courses in his hometown of Berkeley, Calif. And though Philips studied film at U.S.C., got a master's at Oxford and bounced from job to job, he spent his free time sniffing, swirling and spitting his way through the world's wines. "Preparation," he says, "for what I was supposed to be doing...
Another of Saturday's panels saw top administrators from several other universities come to Harvard to honor their peer school. Present in the panel moderated by Rudenstine were Yale Provost Alison F. Richard, University of California at Berkeley Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl, University of Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger and Cornell President emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes...