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...what role would volcanoes have had to play in all this? A big one, argues Gerta Keller, a Princeton University paleontologist, who recently made her case at a meeting of the Geological Society of America. Geologists have known for centuries that a swath of central India was buried by a series of eruptions at around the time of the dinosaurs' demise. The remains of the flows, known as the Deccan Traps, still cover some 193,000 sq. mi. (500,000 sq km). The eruptions would have poured carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide into the air, triggering runaway global warming...
...Harvard’s president wasn’t the only academic recognized by the magazine. Honored alongside Faust were the three other female Ivy League presidents, Amy Gutmann ’71 of the University of Pennsylvania, Ruth J. Simmons of Brown, and Shirley M. Tilghman of Princeton. “There’s a kind of evolving friendship and professional relationship that I value very much,” Faust said of sharing the award with her fellow Ivy presidents. This year’s winners, who were nominated by a board of about 200 past Glamour...
...With a year of Division I hockey under her belt, McDonald is poised to help Harvard right away. In the Crimson’s season-opening two-game series against Quinnipiac and Princeton this past weekend, she saw time as a winger on Harvard’s talented top line with junior Sarah Vaillancourt and freshman Liza Ryabkina, and was also featured centering the second line. This versatility allows McDonald to give opposing defenses a variety of looks, enhancing her ability as a playmaker and scoring threat...
...league—the same as its final standing last season—by the 16-voter poll despite the arrival of new coach Tommy Amaker. Cornell was picked to win the league after finishing third in the Ivies last season. No team other than Penn and Princeton has won the league since 1988, when the Big Red grabbed the crown. Cornell grabbed 10 of 16 first-place votes and finished with 119 points overall. Yale, last year’s runner-up, was second and earned three first-place votes. Three-time defending champion Penn, Columbia, and Brown came...
...same time maintain independence. At the CIA, for instance, there is always tension when headquarters staff investigate field operatives, who often complain that the Langley suits don't understand field conditions, says Frederick Hitz, CIA IG from 1990 1998 and now a lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. "That accusation is leveled at every IG; I got it in spades," he recalls, even though he began his career in the clandestine branch, running spies in West Africa...