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...scientists with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh have rooted beneath the sediment of the Wind River valley to unearth a spectacular cache of fossils from the Eocene epoch, that critical time when many progenitors of modern mammals first appeared. Representing some 65 species and including about eight species previously unknown, the bones are the most diverse and perfectly preserved ever discovered from that time. Although they have only just begun to study their find, Richard Stucky, 34, and Leonard Krishtalka, 38, are already convinced that the bones will reveal precious clues to the evolution and extinction...
...Harvard has supplied terminal time to students in the first epoch of the computer age will likely soon be obsolete. Plugging increasing numbers of terminals into large, centralized mainframe computers simply doesn't make economic sense given the quantities of students and faculty interested in signing...
...Harvard has supplied terminal time to students in the first epoch of the computer age will likely soon be obsolete. Plugging increasing numbers of terminals into large, centralized mainframe computers simply doesn't make economic sense given the quantities of students and faculty interested in signing...
Chernenko: That Bok! That is the kind of capitalist reasonableness that will delay the Revolution in that country for an epoch. So what did Buckley then write...
...looked behind you, at the people gathered to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education--the epoch-making decision that outlawed "separate but equal" public services and that would help fuel the Civil-Rights movement of the 60s--you remembered where you were quite suddenly. This was Boston. And this polite company was a group of battle-scarred activists who have once again taken up the fight against racism, this time chasing the disease to where it now lies--in the subtleties and nuances of Northern discrimination. Said one chagrinned former Black undergraduate...