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Middens can reveal changes in the heavens as well as on earth. That was demonstrated by hydrologist Fred Phillips of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, who checked an ancient pack-rat midden for evidence of cosmic-ray bombardment of the earth. He knew that highly energetic cosmic-ray particles create the radioisotope chlorine 36 when they strike argon atoms in the atmosphere, and that the isotope finds its way into plants and the urine of mammals, including the pack...
With the aid of radiochemist Pankaj Sharma of the University of Rochester, he compared the amount of the isotope in the midden urine with contemporary values, and concluded that cosmic-ray bombardment was 41% more intense 21,000 years ago than it is now. This suggests that the earth's magnetic field, which acts as a partial barrier to cosmic rays, was then considerably weaker. One implication: terrestrial life had been -- and could someday again be -- exposed to higher doses of dangerous radiation from space...
There's no need to make a cosmic case against Basic Instinct. It's just another entertainment that went more wrong than right. Maybe its script isn't worth $3 million, but its basic premise is not a bad one. It proposes an untrammeled San Francisco woman named Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) who writes murder mysteries that have a nasty way of predicting actual crimes. They also provide, of course, a perfect alibi. No one in her right mind would create fictions that make their author a prime suspect...
McIntyre offers a more cosmic answer for the response from the judges: "Maybe your biorhythms were up that...
Miguel: Ah, Lau-ren. A body like poetry and eyes like burnt caramel flan. I can tell by the way she dances that her soul is tuned to the great cosmic pulse. She moves like dough being kneaded by the hands...