Word: darwins
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...pictures of Charles Darwin's life and discoveries...
...Penn; of unknown causes; in Santa Monica, California. Best known as Nice Guy Eddie, the gauche son of a crime boss in Reservoir Dogs, Penn played roles on both sides of the law-a cop in Starsky and Hutch and a convict in Rush Hour. His latest movie, The Darwin Awards, premiered last week at the Sundance Film Festival...
...aversion therapy was tried there in which rangers captured a crocodile, then shot a rifle near it, repeatedly circled it in a boat, and dazzled it with a spotlight. Says one ranger: "That croc has behaved itself ever since." But not all experts endorse such tactics. At Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Professor Graham Webb, who pioneered crocodile research and management in the Northern Territory, says unpleasant encounters with humans make the reptiles much harder to spot. "All it will do is make them wary," he says. "And you won't see them - so you'll think it's safe...
...unknown causes; in Santa Monica, Calif. Best known as Nice Guy Eddie, the gauche son of a crime boss in Reservoir Dogs, Penn played mostly supporting roles on both sides of the law--a cop in Starsky & Hutch and a convict in Rush Hour. His latest movie, The Darwin Awards, premiered last week at the Sundance Film Festival...
...intervention may come as a surprise to some after several key Cardinals and Pope Benedict XVI had spoken out in recent months against taking Darwin too far. Christoph Cardinal Sch?nborn, the Archbishop of Vienna who is extremely close to the Pope, opened debate in Church circles after writing a New York Times op-ed piece on design in nature that resonated with intelligent design's claims against evolutionary theory. He told TIME last summer that he'd been encouraged by the then Cardinal Ratzinger in 2004 to pursue his doubts about what he calls "Neo-Darwinism" or the belief that...