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...find helps cement the dinosaur-bird connection, but it also casts new light on the mystery of why nature invented feathers in the first place. For the better part of a century, biologists have assumed that these specialized structures evolved for flight, but that's clearly not true. "The feathers on these dinosaurs aren't flight-worthy, and the animals couldn't fly," says paleontologist Kevin Padian, of the University of California, Berkeley. "They're too big, and they don't have wings." So what was the original purpose of feathers? Nobody knows for sure; they might have been useful...
...student support has grown increasingly more visible since Friday with the creation of "tent city"-20 tents, banners and messages of support for the living wage campaign drawn on the cement in colored chalk. More than 50 students have slept out the past three nights...
...student support has grown increasingly more visible since Friday with the creation of "tent city"-20 tents, banners and messages of support for the living wage campaign drawn on the cement in colored chalk. More than 50 students have slept out the past three nights...
...Harvard wants to cement a reputation as the Nike of the Ivy League, it need only continue on its present self-righteous path. Last time I checked, Harvard was a nonprofit educational institution. Where is the leadership...
...richest, including the global superpower, in a search for common political, social and economic ground. They represent a potential clash of every conceivable kind of interest (except one, since nondemocratic Cuba is excluded), made more acute by the economic uncertainty. And as a carefully stage-managed event designed to cement pan-American solidarity, the Quebec City summit, like its predecessors in Miami and in Santiago in 1998, inevitably raises questions about the hemisphere's ability to rise above national interests to make the Miami dream a reality...