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Even more tantalizing, paleontologists are gleaning insights into the enigmatic years that immediately preceded the Cambrian explosion. Until last spring, when John Grotzinger, a sedimentologist from M.I.T., led Erwin and two dozen other scientists on an expedition to the Namibian desert, this fateful period was obscured by a 20 million - year gap in the fossil record. But with the find in Namibia, as Grotzinger and three colleagues reported in the Oct. 27 issue of Science, the gap suddenly filled with complex life. In layer after layer of late Precambrian rock, heaved up in the rugged outcroppings the Namibians call kopfs...
Nash began her Time career 25 years ago as a "clip girl" in the Nation section and quickly moved up to correspondent, covering a variety of beats before devoting herself to science and writing and reporting a dozen or more memorable cover stories--so many, in fact, that she's lost track of the number. Like any great reporter, she works the beat around the clock. Her husband Thomas Nash is a particle physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory...
Wattenberg, 62, a columnist and think tanker for the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, makes much of his Democratic credentials: if he refers to his years as a speechwriter for Lyndon B. Johnson once, he does so a dozen times. He lays out his lifetime voting record, which reveals he is that mottled beast, a Reagan Democrat. He voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. And so he presents his book essentially as an open letter to Clinton, describing how the President has strayed from the centrist positions that got him elected and suggesting ways in which he--or whoever captures...
...sell bikes this year." And in the luxury category, gourmet dog biscuits top the list of petty indulgences. In Kansas City, Missouri, Dan Dye, co-owner of Three Dog Bakery, says boxes of carob-coated reindeer and other savories baked by trained pastry chefs sell briskly for $12 a dozen...
...drums of hydrogen to prevent explosions, baking plutonium metal for storage in sealed vaults. But he and cleanup contractor Kaiser-Hill ran into a brick, or rather a paper, wall. Of the 250 cleanup "milestones" set by the EPA and Colorado's Department of Health and Environment, only two dozen spelled out concrete action. The rest mostly involved producing one report after another, generating much paper but no progress. Scores of internal policy directives, set in place by the DOE itself, further impeded the effort. "The people who wrote these procedures had little idea of how things actually worked," says...