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...coming of humanity. Throughout most of geological time, individual species and their immediate descendants lived an average of about 1 million years. They disappeared naturally at the rate of about one species per million per year, and newly evolved species replaced them at the same rate, maintaining a rough equilibrium. No longer. Not only has the extinction rate soared, but also the birthrate of new species has declined as the natural environment is destroyed...
...they head off into the rough and tumble world of professional football, we wish them well. Maybe not ten thousand, but three men of Harvard won victory today...
...beginning, where you are on a steep learning curve, sometimes it is a little rough getting started. I suspect that there was too much emphasis placed on learning the new technology," Reina says...
...chief of police for the city's public schools, who ran the child's case through the department's new computer "threat-assessment" program, called Mosaic-2000. With a battery of 42 questions--Is the student harassed by peers? Has the student recently experienced rejection?--Mosaic purports to calculate rough odds on whether a child will turn violent...
TOTAL IT UP The Social Security Administration has just made planning your retirement easier. At ssa.gov/retire a "quick" calculator lets you input your current earnings and age (provided you are 22 to 62), and gives a rough estimate of your retirement benefits.It assumes you started working at 22 and have worked continuously since then. Finer-tuned calculations can be had by inputting more info or downloading software...