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...evidence from ancient lake beds in the Northeast U.S. suggests that the dinosaurs got their big break in just the same way our ancestors did. Scientists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and their colleagues have found iridium, a mineral plentiful in asteroids, in sediment about 200 million years old--just when the dinosaurs started to take over the planet. Fossilized footprints show that the dinosaurs evolved very rapidly at that time, from the size of dogs to that of dragons. And fossils of fern spores suggest that these opportunistic plants had a sudden ecological opening for colonization...
...evidence from ancient lake beds in the Northeast U.S. suggests that the dinosaurs got their big break in the same way our ancestors did, through a cataclysm that killed off competing species. Scientists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and their colleagues have found iridium, a mineral plentiful in asteroids, in sediment about 200 million years old. Fossilized footprints show that the dinosaurs evolved very rapidly at that time, from the size of dogs to that of dragons.And fossils of fern spores suggest that these opportunistic plants also had a sudden ecological opening for colonization...
...sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often get A’s too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long. There are other ways...
...prize-winning theses on the bookshelf in Lamont, and it seems an unattainable goal,” she said. “I want more people to know about this issue, and the social and political struggles of these women...
Wireless ethernet access is already available at several locations across campus, including Lamont and Hilles libraries, Loker Commons and Maxwell-Dworkin...