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Vaux had hoped to leave for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) because he said Linguistics Chair Jay H. Jasanoff told him the department would not be seeking a tenured professor in Vaux’s field of phonology, the study of sounds in speech...
...project reflects the hard work of many TIME staff members, in particular Andrea Dorfman, who did much of the reporting and co-wrote the lead story; Marti Golon, who created the striking design; and Jay Colton, who organized the impressive photography. So if you tend to skip environmental specials, make an exception with this one. There's a hopeful message inside that's well worth your time...
...dressed in plaid and stripes," she recalls, "I had to say to myself, 'Just let it go. That's no longer part of your job.'" To ease the stress, some couples opt to take turns every few years. Others decide to have just one kid. Joann Massey, whose husband Jay runs slowlane.com feels torn over leaving their only child, Tucker, 8. "I love that Jay is home," she says. "But being away has been hard, and I couldn't go through this with another child...
...example, can be heard live over the Internet www.wfmu.org/gks) and 26% of its contributing listeners tune in at least part of the time online. Programmers at NPR are thinking about the Web too. "In the future, online may be a place for NPR to reach younger people," says Jay Kernis, senior vice president for programming for National Public Radio. Indeed, hooking up with the new technology may be just the way for radio to make sure that kids don't tune...
Finding Toumai Man, the oldest hominid, in Chad [PALEONTOLOGY, July 22] fits in well with the theory of punctuated equilibrium developed by paleontologists Niles Eldridge and Stephen Jay Gould. [The theory explains why new species, rather than evolving gradually over millions of years, seem to suddenly appear in the fossil record, punctuating long periods of species stability, or equilibrium.] The Toumai fossil could have been a member of a peripherally isolated community that evolved into our oldest ancestors. You reported that several modern-looking hominids coexisted, and this also jibes with the introduction of members of an isolated community into...