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Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, often called the “Darwin of the 20th century,” died last Thursday at his retirement community in Bedford, Mass...
...DIED. ERNST MAYR, 100, leading evolutionary biologist of the 20th century; in Bedford, Mass. Born in Germany, he became an avid bird watcher and turned away from a planned medical career to natural history. In the 1930s and '40s, he integrated the newly emerging field of genetics with Darwin's insights on evolution, showing how species arise when groups of similar organisms become separated--often by geography--and then accumulate genetic differences that no longer allow them to interbreed...
...adolescent need for identity sometimes expresses itself in persecution of those who stand out. Consider the case of Kathi Hürter, 14, a top student at Bonn's Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium. About two years ago, Hürter says, many of her schoolmates started looking askance at her short hairstyle and nondescript outfits. But last winter, the situation escalated. Two girls in her class began to ridicule and bad-mouth her, saying she looked like a boy and calling her a nerd. They tripped her up, took her pens, and eventually resorted to hiding and damaging her backpack...
...Lisa Campbell Ernst...
...side, it's a magnifying glass or a tag on a dog's collar; upside-down it's a pendulum on a clock. This is hands-on entertainment (and education) in which part of the pleasure is physically rotating the book to follow each letter's permutations. For adults, Ernst's geometric designs and striking hues may evoke the color-field experiments of artist Josef Albers. Kids will be more interested in the way an upside-down A becomes a drippy ice-cream cone or a sideways E turns into an electric plug. Ernst's ingenuity is equal even...