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...hour later and he might not have noticed the rock, much less stooped to pick it up. But the early morning sunlight slanting across the Namibian desert in southwestern Africa happened to illuminate momentarily some strange squiggles on a chunk of sandstone. At first Douglas Erwin, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, wondered if the meandering markings might be dried-up curls of prehistoric sea mud. But no, he decided after studying the patterns for a while, these were burrows carved by a small, wormlike creature that arose in long-vanished subtropical seas - an archaic organism that...
...Smithsonian paleobiologist Douglas Erwin warned his colleagues last week, it is dangerous to try to explain a complex calamity like the Permian extinction in simplistic terms. The Great Dying, Erwin believes, was produced by an interplay of many forces--"a tangled web rather than a single mechanism"--and if paleontologists and geologists want to sort out the puzzle, they must spend long hours in the field searching for further clues. Even after scientists reach a consensus about what caused the extinction, observes Renne, a central mystery will remain. What is it about life, he marvels, that enables it to rebound...
...step sparring, freshman Erwin Kruger took home first place in the men's orange and yellow belt division. In the free-sparring competition, junior Chris Ricciardi placed second in the men's brown and red belt division, while senior Nils Bastedo won first place in the men's camouflage and green belt division...
Many legal experts believe the defense performed beautifully, but is being a bit disingenuous. ``There's no other way to interpret this except as a deliberate withholding of the witnesses,'' says Erwin Chemerinsky, a law professor at the University of Southern California. ``I understand why the prosecution was outraged.'' And at the very least, the defense must enjoy seeing the prosecution so rattled at such a crucial point in the trial. ``For Bill Hodgman to object 13 times is a sign of how bad the damage to the prosecution was,'' says Los Angeles criminal-defense lawyer Andrew Stein. ``Marcia Clark...
...Erwin Griswold can be a brusque, even abrasive man," an editorial in The Harvard Crimson said in 1967, following the announcement of his retirement. "And it sometimes surprises those who meet and work with him that he is a good man and a very great dean of Harvard Law School...