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Last week's three ousted chairmen thus joined a long line of executives who ) have fallen prey to the most significant new trend in American corporate governance since the takeover mania of the 1980s: boardrooms, as they discovered, are ceasing to be clubby havens for beleaguered executives. Puppets no more, directors are responding to financial and legal pressures from angry shareholders by rising up against management in open revolts that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. While such boardroom activism is nothing new at smaller companies, where directors tend to hold large ownership stakes, it is now spreading...
...continuing survey with the new telescopes, the panel predicted, would discover most of the large Earth-crossers within a decade, and virtually all of them in 25 years. And while the survey was hunting its larger prey, it would also spot many of the estimated 300,000 ECAs larger than 100 m (330 ft.), which could cause regional, but not global, disaster. One proposal, to use orbiting sensors and lasers for detecting smaller objects, was rejected by the panel as unneeded, prohibitively expensive and probably futile. Astronomer Gehrels estimates that 100 million asteroids larger than 20 m in diameter...
...expedition. "We are just a couple of steps away from the ancestor of all dinosaurs." The scientists named the find Eoraptor, or "dawn stealer," because it appeared at the dawn of the dinosaurs and, considering its modest size, probably used stealth rather than brute force to snatch small prey...
Fortunately the Village is small, and its weightless ambience is surrounded by dour poverty. Yet the phantoms are threatening an epidemic, and even the essential cuddliness of Harvard could fall prey. For the moment we occupy in Cambridge a University of beguiling loveliness and reassuring warmth: on cold winter nights as you age and your skin starts to pucker and flop on your body, the landmarks of benighted Harvard will return. Think of the steps of Sever, London broil, Au Bon Pain, and crappy newspapers: how our decrepitude will look back on these with affection...
...crickets, beetles and eyeless fish. "We see simple communities that may be made up of only four species," says Tom Poulson, professor of biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "But that allows us to look in greater detail at what is going on, say, between predator / and prey." As a result, biologists can study subterranean ecosystems in their entirety -- a feat that often proves impossibly complex aboveground...