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...Albright and Kim emerged, all smiles, and headed down the hall toward the entrance foyer. Working to make conversation as they passed a nook filled with orchids and two cages containing parakeets, Albright said, "It's so beautiful." The Great Leader had nothing to contribute on the flora or fauna, so he countered, "President Jiang Zemin (of China) stayed here." Albright responded with some constructive flattery, "You have many, many visitors." "But I think the Americans are deserving more frequent visits," Kim said. "See you in a little while," Albright said. They shook hands and she said, "See you later...
...dispute the many other signs of warming in the Arctic. It's just that one opening in the ice, even at the pole itself, doesn't mean a polar meltdown. But what about those ivory gulls? Aren't they pretty rare birds in a locale known more for fauna like polar bears? Not really, explains the Audubon Society's John Bianchi, who points out that the tough gulls are regular inhabitants of the Arctic Ocean. "If you've got open water at the pole or anywhere else up there," he says, "you're going to find these birds, because that...
...rocks that held the fossils didn't have the right minerals for radiometric dating. So the researchers relied on known ages of kindred vertebrates (for example, the rhynchosaurs appear to be anatomically primitive cousins of ones known to be about 228 million years old). The scientists pegged the Madagascar fauna at about 2 million years older...
...mental toughness: a middle-aged woman, he says, could just as likely win as a 25-year-old commando. Indeed, the psychological rigors of twoscore days in the rain forest--and the potential humiliation of being booted by 15 comrades on national TV--are as worrisome as the jungle fauna. The Swedish show Expedition Robinson, from which Survivor is adapted, ran into controversy when a participant--the first in his group to be ejected--committed suicide just after returning home, although it was not certain that the show was a factor. For Survivor, both medical and psychological support staff will...
Looks as if we have outsmarted ourselves again. What else besides monarch butterflies is being killed by the pollen from pest-resistant designer corn [SCIENCE, May 31]? Hundreds of types of flora and fauna are already on the endangered-species list. Others are being stamped out before receiving the protection that would guarantee their survival. The human population is due to hit 6 billion in a few months. I see a day coming when way too many humans will share the planet with nothing but starlings and cockroaches. BILL BARMETTLER Chehalis, Wash...