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BORN: Feb. 6, 1934, Pipestone, Minn. EDUCATION: U of California, Berkeley, A.B., 1956, Ph.D., 1960 FAMILY: Wife, Johanna; four children RELIGION: Christian Reformed MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Professor; physicist political career: Kent County commissioner, 1975-83; Michigan House, 1983-85, Senate, 1985-93; U.S. House, 1993- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 3340, Grand Rapids...
Ehlers is seeking his second full term in the House after taking over Paul Henry's seat in 1993 and winning in 1994 by a landslide. Home schooled as a child because he had severe asthma, he holds a doctorate in nuclear physics from Berkeley, and in his first term worked to update the House's computers and Internet access. Ehlers has also written two books on the environment and served on the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee...
BORN: Feb. 17, 1961, Sacramento EDUCATION: U of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1983; U of California (Hastings), J.D., 1986 FAMILY: Wife, Amy Karol; three children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Real estate broker; aide to lieutenant governor POLITICAL CAREER: California Republican Party Central Committee, 1993-; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1348, Dixon...
BORN: Sept. 17, 1941, Sacramento EDUCATION: U of California, Berkeley, A.B., 1963; J.D., 1966 FAMILY: Wife, Doris Okada; one child RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Sacramento City Council, 1971-78; U.S. House 1978- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1347, Sacramento...
...Berkeley's Padian, on the other hand, contends that pterosaurs did not have to walk on their wings, but were agile two-legged runners. He also disagrees with the explanation University of Bristol paleontologist David Unwin offers for the long fifth toe that juts out from pterosaur hind limbs. Unwin believes this toe served as the attachment site for a second skinlike membrane that stretched between the animals' hind limbs. "Why else would the fifth toe have been so elongated?" he asks. Padian responds that Unwin's membrane does not make anatomical sense: among other things, it would have hampered...