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...named Rebecca L. Berner '90 of Winthrop House and John R. Smith '90 of Leverett House as the winners of the prize, which is awarded to second semester juniors "for their thoughtful, imaginative, and dedicated leadership within the College and unusual contribution to House life," according to a HAA press release. HAA began the grant last year in memory of David Aloian, former HAA executive director and one-time master of Quincy House...
...Berner, who was cited as "one of the most out-going people at Winthrop House, [with] an energy and vitality rarely seen in someone her age," said she had not known she had been nominated and was suprised when Robert A. Hastings '57, the executive director of HAA, informed her last week of her award...
...Indeed, at a meeting of the Geological Society of America in Phoenix last week, two scientists stunned colleagues by reporting that 80 million years ago, the earth's atmosphere contained about 50% more oxygen than it does now. Geochemists Gary Landis of the U.S. Geological Survey and Robert Berner of Yale reached their startling conclusion after analyzing tiny air bubbles trapped in bits of amber, the aged and solidified resin of coniferous trees. They placed the amber inside a vacuum chamber, then cracked it to let the ancient air escape. They found that it was 32% oxygen, compared with...
...Berner quickly dismisses speculation that a change in the oxygen supply had anything to do with the extinction of dinosaurs. "It was a very slow change, over millions of years," he observes. "And most organisms easily adapt." Next comes testing bubbles in 300 million-year-old amber...
...armed patrols and barbed wire, the two states have settled into a wary but increasingly pragmatic relationship, held together by more than 70 bilateral agreements governing everything from postal communications to electricity sharing. "German-German relations used to be much worse than East-West relations in general," says Wolfgang Berner, deputy director of Cologne's Federal Institute for East European and International Studies. "This has changed." While no small part of that change is due to West German bridge building, Honecker has in recent years also grown more flexible...