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...during last Thursday's Biological Sciences 2 field laboratory that I arrived at this conclusion. BS 2 labs are regularly three hours long. Last week's trip to the fauna of the Harvard-owned Concord hillside, though, ended up dragging on a bit longer. The 5 p.m. deadline for our scheduled return to Harvard turned to 6 p.m. even before we departed...
...about where dinosaurs lived and how they evolved. "We have a pretty good record from North America, Asia and South America," says paleontologist Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. "But we're just now starting to get a picture of the dinosaur fauna of Africa...
...desire to stay on good terms with the governments of these countries, several companies have signed agreements to share any profits they make from local biological resources. Merck, for example, worked out a deal with Costa Rica that lets its investigators screen that nation's flora and fauna for potential new drugs, and Shaman Pharmaceuticals has similar agreements with a dozen countries...
...howmuch easier would it be today, in the era oftelevision, for a madman like Hitler or Stalin topervert the spirit of a whole nation. When havepeople ever had the power we now possess to alterthe climate of the planet or deplete its mineralresources or the wealth of its fauna and flora inthe space of a few short decades? And how muchmore destructive potential do terrorists have attheir disposal today than at the beginning of thiscentury...
Astrov's obsession is just one aspect of the play's preoccupation with time. His medical training encourages him to see the world as his patient. The prognosis is grim: Russia's forests are being stripped, its fauna decimated, its rivers defiled. But in Vanya's eyes, time is static. Boredom, frustration, tedium will reign eternally. The choice these two philosophers contrive is desolate: the world is going to hell, or it's already there...