Word: mammoth
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...many, the notion that primitive hunters could have killed off more than 100 species of large animals has long seemed preposterous. While Homo sapiens certainly killed and ate the likes of mammoths and mastodons, notes Ross MacPhee, an expert on mammalian extinctions at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, it must have done so with great caution. As he puts it: "If some guy walked up to a mammoth armed only with a pointy stick, chances are he would have been road pizza within minutes...
What killed the great North American wooly mammoth? That question - which has bedevilled scientists for decades - may be closer to an answer this week with the release of two studies in the journal Science...
...daunting task of mounting an exhibition that surveys the visual culture of California in relation to a century's worth of social changes in that huge, dynamic and almost crazily heterodox state. That is what the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has tried to do in a mammoth show that opened last month: "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000." It involves some 800 works in just about every imaginable medium, set forth by a team of catalog writers and curators as long as the credit crawl on a George Lucas movie, under the general direction...
...that I outshot two of the three members of the U.S. National team and four of the five members of the Army World Class Athlete Program. Both these teams train full-time and compete internationally, so beating them in any aspect of the race (despite the overall mammoth margin of loss) is a huge boost. This shooting performance (hitting 14 of 20) becomes the high point of the whole series...
...Associate Provost Dennis F. Thompson, who also worked with Rudenstine at Princeton, says that he was impressed to see what he describes as “one of [Rudenstine’s] most striking qualities” carry over from the much smaller world of Princeton to the mammoth Harvard...