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For more than 40 years, earth has been sending out distress signals. At first they were subtle, like the thin shells of bald-eagle eggs that cracked because they were laced with DDT. Then the signs were unmistakable, like the pall of smoke over the Amazon rain forest, where farmers...
We were standing near the back entrance of University Hall. Peering through the basement window into the Harvard Prize Office, I saw a man bent over a typewriter. I went over to the window and tapped on the glass. Eventually he saw me, fiddled with some levers and pulleys and...
By almost any standard, the best yardstick for measuring how steadily--if slowly--athletic performance has improved is the mile run. In 1900 the record for the mile was a comparatively sleepy 4 min. 12 sec. It wasn't until 1954 that Roger Bannister of Britain cracked the 4-min...
And where would you put them? The great San Francisco quake of 1906 cracked the earth across 350 miles, about one-third of the northern San Andreas Fault. To make things worse, California is riddled with faults that are smaller and not so well mapped as the San Andreas. For...
Score one for private enterprise. Two years ago, Craig Venter drew a rousing chorus of harrumphs (and a few "yeah, rights") from government scientists when he said that his genetics research firm, Celera Genomics, could map the human genome three times faster than the feds and at a fraction of...