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Fossils of a four-winged species of dinosaur discovered in northeastern China have provided surprising new evidence on the evolution of birds, a group of Chinese paleontologists reported in the journal Nature this month. The dinosaur, given the name Microraptor gui, appears to have used its feathers to glide from tree to tree, much like a flying squirrel. Its gliding motion supports the theory that birds, which are believed to have evolved from dinosaurs, took their first flight from the trees down, not from the ground up, as a competing theory maintains. Microraptor gui was relatively small--about...
...PARC has a pretty good track record when it comes to radical new visions, even if its record of holding onto them has been spotty at best. The mouse, the GUI (graphical user interface, like Windows) and arguably the PC itself were all born in this hothouse of Silicon Valley R. and D.; they ended up making a lot of money for Apple and Microsoft. Xerox has got a lot of prestige but little cash out of the PARC, which is why the beleaguered copier giant intimated in October that it would put its crown jewel up for sale...
...smile, is "one of the simplest for marketing people to explain." And he's right, sort of. It's software that enables employees to file expense reports on a corporate intranet. (What's an intranet? Ask Trent Lott.) The sales brochure promises a "Thin Client" with "Rich Java GUI," which sounds like it's pushing a dietetic dessert...
...take on the appearance of solid ground. What distinguishes this section is not only the meticulous attention it gives to the variations within the Southern Song landscape tradition but also the fact that we see this transformation through the works of its most innovative practitioners: Ma Yuan and Xia Gui, the founding fathers of the so-called Ma-Xia school of landscape painting...
...Memorandum of Understanding" was signed last Tuesday by Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye and Gui Shiyong, executive vice president of the National School of Administration...