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...than some of the theories that researchers have concocted to explain the demise of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago. Some of the more notable flights of fancy, while capturing the public's imagination, have strained scientists' credulity. Yet, complains Physicist Richard Muller, "these are the theories kids are taught by their elementary school teachers...
...long after the air has cooled. Inside, a 30-in. telescope begins a laborious computer-controlled search of the heavens, covering only a tiny patch of sky during the next six hours of darkness. And the following day, at the nearby University of California campus in Berkeley, Physicist Richard Muller, like a seer divining entrails, scrutinizes the new batch of video recordings from Lafayette. He seeks a sign of a dim star that many scientists think does not exist: Nemesis, the death star, a possible companion...
...more old-fashioned--like the fates? Although Shoemaker and Walter Alvarez do not consider themselves superstitious, they recently found reason to rethink their beliefs. During a visit to Berkeley, Shoemaker had roundly blasted the Nemesis idea, so Alvarez took him to a Chinese restaurant for a further discussion of Muller's model. After dinner, Alvarez cracked open his fortune cookie, pulled out the paper strip, glanced at it and, suppressing a laugh, handed it to Shoemaker. It read: "The star of riches is shining...
...species died; and the late-Cretaceous event 65 million years ago, which saw the destruction of the dinosaurs and many other groups of species, including the microscopic organisms responsible for creation of the white cliffs of Dover. The effects on evolution were profound. "In wiping the slate clean," says Muller, "these catastrophes opened up ecological niches and prevented stagnation...
...that was sure to continue for weeks. He dispatched Nairobi Bureau Chief James Wilde to Islamabad and Bangkok Bureau Chief James Willwerth, vacationing in Japan, to New Delhi. By 7:45 a.m. Mader was in his office briefing Managing Editor Ray Cave by phone, then World Senior Editor Henry Muller. By 1 p.m., about half a day after the shooting, the first dispatches for the story began arriving from New Delhi...