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Together, these fossils have overturned the old picture of the fish-tetrapod transition, which conjured up the image of creatures like the modern lungfish crawling out of water onto land. That picture certainly didn't fit Acanthostega, whose short, flimsy legs were ill equipped for terrestrial locomotion. Rather, according to University of Cambridge paleontologist Jennifer Clack, Acanthostega was an aquatic creature that used its limbs and lungs to make a living in water. And that scenario makes sense because it sets up conditions for natural selection--the force that powers evolution--to favor transitional life-forms like the fishapod, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Cousin The Fishapod | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...some reason, doesn't respond. Or perhaps their protection has weakened over the years, or maybe the vaccine is not as effective as it should have been. To sort all that out, investigators from Iowa and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are studying residents who became ill as well as those who were exposed to the virus but didn't get sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Iowa Got the Mumps | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...feeling that we must never again stand by quietly while those ignorant of and casual about war lead us into another one and then mismanage the conduct of it. Never again, we thought, would our military's senior leaders remain silent as American troops were marched off to an ill-considered engagement. It's 35 years later, and the judgment is in: the Who had it wrong. We have been fooled again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Iraq Was a Mistake | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

...health and our future. As Darwin noted, the survival of each species depends on how well it fits into changing environments. We know that ecosystems are changing on a global scale. As documented by the fossil record, some species in the past thrived under new conditions, while others, ill adapted to change, went extinct. Who will be the winners in the hot, deforested, carbon dioxide-- enveloped world of the future? It won't necessarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darwin Would Have Loved It | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

...Policy Committee—a subcommittee of the HCCR—has to reconsider before its final manifesto is released in September. While we realize that a curriculur review must be handled delicately and all angles of legislation fully explored, if the only concrete discussion taking place is at ill-attended Faculty meetings—with nothing of substance in between—there will be no end in sight...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty No-Show | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

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