Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...producing at least 17.5 million bbl. a day, even though demand for its oil is only at 15 million bbl. As a result, prices are plunging while the countries wait to see which one will be the first to blink. The standoff could bring months or even years of rock-bottom energy bills. Says Mani Said al-Oteiba, Oil Minister of the United Arab Emirates: "The price war is here." Adds Constantine Fliakos, senior petroleum analyst at Merrill Lynch: "It's a case of everyone for himself...
Their risky efforts paid off. The cliffs, part of a stratum of sedimentary shale and sandstone interleaved with volcanic basalt, date from between 225 million and 175 million years ago. The entire rock formation was long thought to be virtually devoid of fossils and thus of little interest to paleontologists. In fact, says Neil Shubin, 25, a graduate student in biology at Harvard, the site they discovered "looks like Rocky Road ice cream. It's dark rock absolutely splattered with bone." Says his partner, Geologist Paul Olsen, 32, of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: "We were shocked...
...mass extinction some 200 million years ago that marked the end of the Triassic period and the beginning of the Jurassic. Because of some rapid change, perhaps a catastrophic event, the fossil record shows, 43% of the animal families whose fossilized remains are found in the older Triassic rock are missing from the Jurassic layers just above it. The sudden mass extinction opened the evolutionary way for the proliferation of the dinosaurs and the emergence of the mammals. The creatures found in the rock samples, Olsen believes, were among the survivors of that event...
Last week their remains were still being painstakingly extracted from more than three tons of the fossil-rich rock that were shipped back to laboratories at Harvard and Columbia. Technicians armed with microscopes and carbide needles to pick away at the rock have already discovered some notable specimens: the world's richest collection of fossil bones of tritheledonts, the group of reptiles most closely related to mammals; a large number of sphenodonts, small, lizard-like reptiles whose only living relative is the tuatara of New Zealand; yard-long crocodiles with spindly legs, a whiplike tail and a sleek body that...
...council's none-too-clear mandate to shape campus debate of important issues. They did not offer new visions of student government at Harvard. Offutt called the week-long effort to unseat him "bickering," and, among other things, said he would like to see Harvard Stadium used for rock concerts. Lane, who lost the election, also steered clear of anything resembling a larger question of student government. Her campaign statement focused on the need to heal rifts within the council...