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Sprinter Frankie Fredericks of Namibia will be making a strong run for the title of "World's Fastest Human" at the Olympics. Last week in Helsinki he ran the third-fastest 100 m ever, in 9.87 sec., finishing ahead of world champion Donovan Bailey of Canada. Fredericks is also a contender in the 200, an event dominated by Michael Johnson. A few days earlier, Johnson won the 200 at the U.S. Olympic trials in 19.66 sec., breaking the 17-year-old world record...
...image is valid, but incomplete. There is reason for optimism, as well as despair. White rule has toppled; democratic institutions have emerged; and several of the nations--Mauritius, Namibia and Ghana--boast of growth rates that would be the envy of most other nations of the world. Africa indeed constitutes the development challenge of our time. But it is a challenge worth undertaking...
...debate between Runnegar and Seilacher is about to get even more heated. For, as pictures that accompany the Science article reveal, researchers have returned from Namibia with hard evidence that a diverse community of organisms flourished in the oceans at the end of the Vendian, just before nature was gripped by creative frenzy. Runnegar, for instance, is currently studying the fossil of a puzzling conical creature that appears to be an early sponge. M.I.T.'s Beverly Saylor is sorting through sandstones that contain a menagerie of small, shelly things, some shaped like wine goblets, others like miniature curtain rods...
...Genetic Tool Kit The animals that aerated the Precambrian oceans could have resembled the wormlike something that left its meandering marks on the rock Erwin lugged back from Namibia. More advanced than a flatworm, which was not rigid enough to burrow through sand, this creature would have had a sturdy, fluid-filled body cavity. It would have had musculature capable of strong contractions. It probably had a heart, a well-defined head with an eye for sensing light and, last but not least, a gastrointestinal tract with an opening at each end. What kind of genetic machinery, Erwin wondered...
...must come down here today, now, this very minute," Jablonski replied. He told Nash that a colleague had just returned from an expedition to Namibia, where he had unearthed fossils that shed amazing new light on evolution's "Big Bang"--the unparalleled explosion of life forms that sprang into being during the Cambrian period. So began an odyssey that led Nash to labs, museums and rocky outcroppings across the country, and culminated in the extraordinary report in this week's issue...