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REPORTERS DO SOME OF THEIR best work between assignments, when a sixth sense leads them to the next big story--sometimes simply by nudging them to call the right source and ask, "What's new?" Senior correspondent Madeleine Nash made one of those breakthrough calls last summer. But Nash was sniffing out a story that's 543 million years...
...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...
...Cambrian for a long, long time," says Nash, who specializes in telling complex science stories in a way that's not just comprehensible but compelling. The key, she says, is a sense of adventure. "People think of science as a body of knowledge, but in truth it's a process of discovery. When things don't make sense, that's when they get really exciting...
...gets stirred up by a big story, so her nickname is Mad Nash," says deputy International editor Charles Alexander. "But I like to call her Mad Dash because she'll drop everything instantly and go anywhere in the world to report...
Freshman Melissa Forcum was a major factor in Harvard's victory and led the offense with 14 kills and 14 digs. Sophomore Sarah Logan followed with 14 kills and three blocks and freshman setter Kate Nash had 52 assists...