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...advance that gives one species a temporary advantage over another be enough to bring down an entire ecosystem. "These patterns of speciations and extinctions, avalanching across ecosystems and time," warns Kauffman, are to be found in every chaotic system - human and biological. "We are all part of the same pageant," as he puts it. Thus, even in this technological age, we may have more in common than we care to believe with the weird - and ultimately doomed - wonders that radiated so hopefully out of the Cambrian explosion...
...economy of the city has got at least a $4 million shot in the arm from visiting reporters, plus enough tourists last summer to move L.A. up on the list of popular U.S. destinations. The region couldn't have done better if it hosted a Miss America pageant...
DIED. MARGARET GORMAN CAHILL, 90, the first Miss America; in Washington. Seventy-four years before TV viewers pondered the pros and cons of the Miss America swimsuit competition, back when the pageant was little else but a swimsuit competition, a flapper-thin form won the title for the 5-ft. 1-in., 16-year-old (or 15-year-old, according to some rumors) Cahill...
Quinn, 41, began savoring the cracked pageant of pop culture as a boy in Teaneck, New Jersey. He honed his writing at the Yale School of Drama; one of his farces was collected in Best Short Plays: 1983. But good notices don't pay bills, so he turned to journalism, joining TIME in 1985 and writing the People page before moving to Milestones three years ago. (He also serves up the cheeky Winners & Losers box in Chronicles.) His rambunctious sensibility, says senior editor Bruce Handy, "prevents Milestones from becoming gloomy or sterile. These are rich lives, and he's able...
...queens on a road trip from New York to Los Angeles in lackluster ensembles. In "Priscilla," they are on their way to put on a drag show at a hotel in the middle of nowhere; in To Wong Foo, they are going to compete in a national drag queen pageant in L.A. "Priscilla" had a matron, a misanthrope and a young upstart. What a shock, so does "To Wong Foo" (Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo, respectively...