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...dinosaurs got their big break in just the same way our ancestors did. Scientists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and their colleagues have found iridium, a mineral plentiful in asteroids, in sediment about 200 million years old--just when the dinosaurs started to take over the planet. Fossilized footprints show that the dinosaurs evolved very rapidly at that time, from the size of dogs to that of dragons. And fossils of fern spores suggest that these opportunistic plants had a sudden ecological opening for colonization...
Coupled with the fact that conventional equations can describe only the simplest natural phenomena (you can write an equation for the orbit of a single planet around the sun, for example, but not for an entire solar system, let alone a living cell), the success of his simple programs made Wolfram suspect that science has been heading in the wrong direction for the past 300 years or so. Instead of trying to write complicated equations for everything, he says, scientists should have been searching instead for the cellular automata that correspond to what they are observing...
...Count Dooku, incarnated by Christopher Lee). Joseph Campbell might have got a kick out of the mythic reverberations, but for the rest of us the story is a thin clothesline on which to hang some terrific computerized beasties (the iguana hashslinger Dexter Jettster, the tall, graceful llama-lamas of planet Kamino) and fab set pieces (a treadmill struggle in the clone factory). Lucas guides these scenes with ingenious care. As for the actors, they're on their own, and it shows...
...wasn't that popular with girls. Getting a date was a big deal with him." If Superman is a hero who dresses up as one of us, Spider-Man is one of us, dressed up as a hero. Says Jeff Ayers, manager of New York City's Forbidden Planet comics store: "Batman's a millionaire, Superman's an alien, and Wonder Woman's an Amazon goddess. Most superheroes are foreign to us, but Spider-Man is normal and flawed...
...REACHED THE SUMMIT. TAMAE WATANABE, 63, retired office worker; of Mount Everest. The Yokohama native is the oldest woman to scale the planet's highest peak. She broke the record set by a 50-year-old Polish woman two years ago. Watanabe has previously climbed Dhaulagiri I and Gasherbrum II, both of which are also in the Himalayas and each over 8,000 meters high. DIED. DOUGLAS PIKE, 77, Vietnam aficionado who compiled over seven million pages of documents on the country, as well as penning eight novels and numerous articles on the Viet Cong; in Lubbock, Texas. Pike first...