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Why? Some scientists blame climate change; others finger a mega-outbreak of disease. Still others subscribe to what Australian paleontologist Tim Flannery refers to as the "black-hole theory of extinction." In this case, as Flannery wryly explains in his just published ecological history of North America, The Eternal Frontier...
A few big publications have seen the light: on May 11 Entertainment Weekly reported "the rumor is she's his ex-wife," and on June 15 the New York Times finally got the facts right in a blurb, after buying the falsehood in an earlier article. In the Detroit area...
It is fashionable to associate elected officials with mandates, a term that refers to tasks charged to that official by those who did the electing. Ironically, it’s a term that has also been applied to Harvard presidents (who are hardly elected in the democratic sense). Mandates, either...
Digging for archaeological paydirt in what is now the Sahara Desert, scientists have unearthed the fossilized bones of the second-largest dinosaur ever to walk the earth. Dubbed Paralititan stromeri (the first name means "tidal giant"; the second refers to Ernst Stromer, a geologist who found dinosaur fossils in the...
Therefore, as the spin construes it, Jeffords' defection means little. Good riddance. A piece on National Review Online refers to Jeffords as RuPaul.