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...Zoology is a welcoming museum. The entrance features a bright orange temporary exhibit enthusiastically titled, "Everybody Likes Trilobites--The Exhibit." It's a user-friendly exhibit that informs visitors, "Time treated the trilobites pretty well," and draws them further into the museum with a flourish: "This way to more fossil in vertebrates...
...animals steal the show. Roommates Bonnie A. Pelly '96 and Bethany M. Lemann '96 came to the museum for a Biological Sciences 2 lab, and returned to check out the rest of the museum. "I liked the sperm whale's pelvic bones and the big dinosaur fossil. I love evolution. I love dolphins. I love primates," gushed Lemann...
What SMUD is doing parallels what developing countries have been up to for more than a decade. These nations, which cannot afford to build costly nuclear or fossil-fuel plants in rural areas, now buy nearly two-thirds of all solar panels produced in the U.S. "In Mexico there are 28 million people without electricity, and Mexico has the most ambitious solar electrification program in the world," says Sklar. Elsewhere, India and Zimbabwe are using World Bank financing to light up remote areas with solar power; India is installing photovoltaic systems in 38,000 villages, and Zimbabwe is bringing...
...latest twist in the global-warming equation involves the effects of the tiny droplets of sulfuric acid that gather in the atmosphere wherever fossil fuels are burned. These droplets help reflect sunlight, counteracting the effects of greenhouse gases. But the cooling may not be concentrated in exactly the same place as the heating, says Stephen Schneider, a climatologist at Stanford. He notes that unlike greenhouse gases, which disperse rapidly around the globe, the sulfate droplets tend to concentrate over industrialized regions -- the U.S., Europe, the former Soviet Union. The result, he says, may be a localized skewing of the weather...
Shattered legs won't keep the famed fossil hunter down...