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...Creation Controversy" (12/1/81). First, how can providing equal time for the teaching of creationism "violate(s)...the academic rights of both teachers and students"? Presenting alternative views should further, not retard, academic freedom. Second, Professor Caroll M. Williams overstated the case when he claimed, "Creationists say that God placed fossil objects on earth in order to deceive mankind." The publications of the Institute for Creation Research (2716 Madison Ave., San Diego, CA 92116), a body of scientists with Ph.D.s in biology, chemistry, and geology, do not base their arguments on divine deception. In fact, spokesman/biochemist Duane T. Gish, author...
Still, as dissimilar as Venus is from earth, scientists see its history as a cautionary tale. They warn that if carbon dioxide continues to build up in the earth's atmosphere as rapidly as it has in the past few decades from burning wood and fossil fuels, the atmosphere will become increasingly like that of Venus. Sunlight will still beat down through the atmosphere, but the CO2 will block heat from radiating back into space, raising global temperatures, melting polar ice and flooding coastal cities...
...Flintstones, but rather a much more elongated, toothy and reptilian-looking skull. Yale's correction, to be sure, is a little tardy. Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum and the Field Museum in Chicago have already changed their Brontosaurus heads. What makes the Peabody's fossil surgery so interesting is that the original foul-up was caused by one of the 19th century's most celebrated bone collectors, Yale's own Othniel Charles Marsh...
...Marsh uncovered Bronto's remains in a quarry in Como Bluff, Wyo. The bones were headless, as all Brontosaurus skeletons ever found have been, because of fragile connections between head and neck. Marsh did what paleontologists often do when they are missing pieces in a fossil puzzle: he capped the reassembled beast with skull fragments found elsewhere/Unfortunately, they came from another long-necked dinosaur called Camarasaurus. At least partly because of Marsh's prestige, his flat-nosed monster became the model for other museums as well as Brontosaurus representations in books, comic strips, even advertisements...
...awarded the EEPC $1.2 million for a three-year study on health problems associated with a broad variety of solid air pollutants. This research may eventually help the federal agency predict the consequences of increased use of fossil fuels, Charles Eddington, a DOE spokesman, said...