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JONATHAN KIMBLE Mercer Island, Wash...
...Destinations to restore your sense of wonder downtown venue, Project Shop Café: with its retro furniture and jazzy ambience, PS represents the ample fulfillment of that dream. The views are even more lush at Beppe De Vito's Il Lido Italian restaurant, tel: (65) 6866 1977, on Sentosa island. Indeed, the good-humored owner claims that Il Lido's hilltop setting ranks among "the most beautiful sites in Asia." While that may be a tad hyperbolic, the cooking of chef Michele Pavanello will certainly have you fumbling for superlatives. Dishes like sea urchin spaghetti, or Stracchino cheese and Parma...
...fossils of the approximately 9-ft. long creature, which are, described in two Nature articles released today, were dug out of rock formations on Ellesmere Island, in the Canadian Arctic, by paleontologists from the University of Chicago and several other institutions. Its nickame, for reasons that will become clear, is "fishapod"; it's more formally called Tiktaalik ("large fish in stream," in the local Inuit language). Fishapod dates from about 383 million years ago. It had the scales, teeth and gills of a fish, but also a big, curved rib cage that suggests the creature had lungs as well...
...Tournament. In a sport where essentially every series is played as a doubleheader, consistency will be crucial as the team approaches Ivy play. Boston College and Boston University are two of the remaining five non-conference opponents on the Crimson’s schedule. Holy Cross, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island are the only other non-Ivy teams Harvard will face. The contests with the Terriers will also mark the Crimson’s last preparation before opening up Ivy League play this weekend. Harvard travels to Columbia and Cornell this weekend. Both the Lions and Big Red are presently riding...
...help if there's no one to operate it. A 2005 survey of New York health care workers found that less than half would be willing to report to work during a SARS outbreak. According to the Trust for America's Health report, hospitals in only two states, Rhode Island and South Dakota, have credible plans to get people to work during a major outbreak. According to a RAND Corporation study published last fall, there are also concerns about how seriously local public health agencies take the risk of disease outbreak. In one trial run, a health worker hearing...