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While the University as a whole is known for its low number of tenured women, GSE is the closest to achieving gender balance...
...dinosaur bones have not yet been fully analyzed, but they appear to belong to early prosauropods, small herbivores that are most likely the ancestors of the giant Apatosaurus (once known as Brontosaurus). Says Flynn of the little beasts: "I like to think of them being somewhat like kangaroos. They were similar in size, and while they didn't hop, they probably walked about on four legs and stood up on two legs to feed." Most of the other fossils come from rhynchosaurs (parrot-beaked reptiles). The rest are cynodonts, cold-blooded, reptile-like animals--the ancestors of modern mammals...
...dating of this find is indirect. The rocks that held the fossils didn't have the right minerals for radiometric dating. So the researchers relied on known ages of kindred vertebrates (for example, the rhynchosaurs appear to be anatomically primitive cousins of ones known to be about 228 million years old). The scientists pegged the Madagascar fauna at about 2 million years older...
...Physicians are not known for their wonderful handwriting," notes GLENN TULLMAN, CEO of Allscripts. In fact, around 150 million calls are made every year to doctors' offices from puzzled pharmacists--calls that Tullman's software aims to eliminate. And because 90% of the country's managed-care providers are already on board, the device also tells doctors which drugs a patient's insurance will cover. The only thing stopping your M.D. from signing up for the device, launched this month, is a legible signature...
...quest for Broadway respect, Saturday Night Fever has done almost everything wrong. It's a big, splashy musical trying to replicate a hit movie, a pretty crass way to make a buck. Its director, Arlene Phillips, is better known for staging extravaganzas in Las Vegas. The show is loud and pushy and panders to the crowd shamelessly. Worse, it overcame critical hoots to become a smash in London, a feat it now has the audacity to think it can repeat in New York City...