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...Department are on the offensive. Testifying before Congress, FDA commissioner David Kessler said his agency was considering regulating tobacco as a drug. Labor Secretary Robert Reich moved to prohibit smoking in all workplaces, including factories, office buildings, restaurants and schools. Meanwhile Philip Morris, the nation's largest cigarette manufacturer, laid a whopping $10 billion libel suit on ABC television for reporting that cigarette makers deliberately manipulate nicotine levels in cigarettes in order to keep smokers hooked...
...volumes, The Ice-Shirt, about Greenland, and Fathers and Crows, about the settling of Quebec, presented the author's bleak argument with stinging force. What he argues for is a vision of absolute evil: civilization, native cultures not excepted, is a pestilence, and mankind is a monstrous curse laid upon nature...
Last November the museum laid off 10 staff members. some of the employees who were let go accused the museum of laying them off for political reasons, but Stager and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles attributed the cuts to the museum's large debt and its need to restructure...
Answering such questions requires convincing evidence -- which is hard to come by in the contentious world of paleoanthropology. It is difficult to determine directly the age of fossils older than about 200,000 years. Fortunately, many specimens are found in sedimentary rock, laid down in layers through the ages. By developing ways of dating the rock layers, scientists have been able to approximate the age of fossils contained in them. But these methods are far from foolproof. The 200,000-year-old Chinese skull, in particular, is getting only a cautious reception from most scientists, in part because the dating...
...most direct evidence of the time H. erectus arrived in Asia is obviously the ages of the fossils found there. But accurate dates are elusive, especially in Java. In contrast to East Africa's Rift Valley, where the underground record of geological history has been lifted up and laid bare by faulting and erosion, most Javan deposits are buried under rice paddies. Since the subterranean layers of rock are not so easy to study, scientists have traditionally dated Javan hominids by determining the age of fossilized extinct mammals that crop up nearby. The two fossils cited in the new Science...