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...those Nat Sci 10 fanatics who need to bone-up on antiquity, March is fossil month at the museum, and each week over 150 children tour the exhibit which is designed to introduce modern city dwellers to the wonders of fossildom...
What is fascinating about a show of this sort is that it is a sociological fossil pit. The American hero (Brad Blaisdell) is an untainted saint of ineptitude. His French rival (Michael Tartel) is a bounder of dashing expertise. The girl that both of them vie for is a strawberry blonde (Kimberly Farr) with a pragmatic eye for betting on a long shot. There is a marvelously agile dance number called The Tickle Toe, and a few ribs are tickled as well...
Other climatologists believe that any long-term cooling trend is being offset by a "greenhouse effect," caused by an increasing atmospheric content of carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels. The CO2 prevents some of the heat radiated by the earth's surface from escaping out into space, thus warming the planet's atmosphere. Warming-trend advocates note that winters in such normally chilly regions as Scandinavia and New England have been uncharacteristically mild in recent years, and glaciers in the Alps have actually retreated. Even a modest rise in world temperatures would bring with...
...final week of the Montreal Olympics will inevitably add its quota of such human errata to the history of the Games. But the main text will be provided by the track and field athletes performing in the $700 million concrete stadium that hovers over the Olympic Park like the fossil of some monstrous crustacean. And immediately the absence of Black Africa's runners was felt. In the first day of track heats, New Zealand's John Walker, the world's fastest miler, failed even to qualify for the 800-meter semifinals. This was only a tune...
Life Forms. It is possible - but not very likely - that these first pictures could dramatically show that there indeed is or was life on Mars. Shots of Fletcher's "eye"- or a scraggly plant or an obvious fossil- would provide instant and sensational evidence that might forever change man's view of himself, his world and the universe. In fact, Sagan and Stanford University Geneticist Joshua Lederberg have suggested that large organisms could have evolved in the cold and arid environment of Mars. Because a big animal has less surface area in relation to its volume than...