Word: fossilizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...completely turned around. Melting glaciers, hotter summers and migrations of plants, animals and even deadly microbes have convinced virtually every climate scientist on earth that human activity has indeed started to warm the planet. Even business and labor leaders whose livelihood depends on the production and use of fossil fuels acknowledge the problem. "The science would indicate," says United Mine Workers president Cecil Roberts, "that there is something happening here." The CEO of American Electric Power, quoted in the current issue of FORTUNE, agrees. "It's clear to me that there is an increase of CO2, that it's probably...
...printing their rebuttal in the same issue. "There's a lot going on in the (scientific) community of trying to ?shoot this down,? " Everett Gibson, co-leader of the agency's asteroid team, told the Associated Press. He added that he was "more convinced than ever" of the fossil's authenticity. And so the debate continues to rage ? to be settled, perhaps, only when the little green men come forward in person...
Louis C. Jacobs, a noted dinosaur expert at Southern Methodist University, said the Utah fossil discoveries are "hugely" important because they help give a picture of the world during an unknown period...
...whom you ask. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Mandel is convinced the penalty would have been more severe if local press coverage hadn't tainted his case. The defense, predictably, thinks it won by persuading the jury that its client was the victim of academics trying to drive commercial fossil hunters out of business...
...million-plus that Sue is expected to draw will undoubtedly seem fair to Williams, although scientists like the Academy of Natural Sciences' Wolberg fear it will send the costs of acquiring important fossils out of sight. In fact, another T. rex, known as Mr. Z Rex, is on the market for a staggering $12 million. The owners, says Jim Wyatt, a fossil dealer who is acting as broker, "based that price on the excitement generated by T. rexes and dinosaurs in general over the past few years...