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...evolutionary theorists beginning with Charles Darwin have tried to argue that the appearance of multicelled animals during the Cambrian merely seemed sudden, and in fact had been preceded by a lengthy period of evolution for which the geological record was missing. But this explanation, while it patched over a hole in an otherwise masterly theory, now seems increasingly unsatisfactory. Since 1987, discoveries of major fossil beds in Greenland, in China, in Siberia, and now in Namibia have shown that the period of biological innovation occurred at virtually the same instant in geologic time all around the world...
That basket came in the closing moments of the game. Rankin took a lob pass and drop-stepped to the basket and put the lay-up in the hole...
...Borough Park, a section of Brooklyn then heavily populated with deeply religious Holocaust survivors and their American-born children. His father, who came from a small Hungarian village, escaped the death camps by fleeing into the forest, where he hid for a year in a 4-ft.-deep hole. Even as a successful candy wholesaler in the U.S., he felt hunted and angry, especially at the "Nice Irvings," his term for America's assimilated Jews who laughed at Borscht Belt humor and turned, as he said, "an identity we'd been martyred for into vaudeville...
...possible--and neither would a score of others spanning virtually every branch of astronomy. The telescope has already thrown Big Bang theorists a curve by suggesting that some stars in the universe are older than the universe itself. At the core of one galaxy it has found a black hole as massive as 3 billion suns. It has made scientists front-row spectators at the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and the planet Jupiter. And it has begun to unravel the riddle of the brilliant beacons of cosmic light known as quasars. Go to any astronomy conference these days...
...growing consensus that gigantic black holes lurk at the core of many galaxies--including our own--was confirmed by Holland Ford, now at Johns Hopkins, and his collaborators, who used the Hubble to spot a superheated disk of gas spinning at a dizzying 1.2 million m.p.h. at the very heart of the galaxy M87, 50 million light-years from Earth. The only reasonable explanation: the gas is funneling, like water down a drain, into the gravitational pit of a black hole as massive as 2 million suns...