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George Bush drew a line in the sand on Kuwait. Bill Clinton draws the line closer to home. The President, capitalizing on his new reputation as the Arkansas strongman, took a tough stand against an old challenger from The New York Times, columnist William Safire. In his column last Tuesday, Safire had the gall to call the First Lady a "congenital liar" for her obsfucation about "Travelgate," her wildly successful commodities career and some obscure beachfront property in Arkansas...
...Algae To human eyes, the world on the eve of the Cambrian explosion would have seemed an exceedingly hostile place. Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward, hurling avalanches of rock, sand and mud down their flanks. The climate was in turmoil. Great ice ages came and went as the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans endured some of the most spectacular shifts in the planet's history. And in one way or another, says Knoll, these dramatic upheavals helped midwife complex animal...
...Genetic Tool Kit The animals that aerated the Precambrian oceans could have resembled the wormlike something that left its meandering marks on the rock Erwin lugged back from Namibia. More advanced than a flatworm, which was not rigid enough to burrow through sand, this creature would have had a sturdy, fluid-filled body cavity. It would have had musculature capable of strong contractions. It probably had a heart, a well-defined head with an eye for sensing light and, last but not least, a gastrointestinal tract with an opening at each end. What kind of genetic machinery, Erwin wondered...
...fact, some of prehistory's worst mass extinctions took place during the Cambrian itself, and they probably occurred for no obvious reason. Rather, just as the tiniest touch can cause a steeply angled sand pile to slide, so may a small evolutionary advance that gives one species a temporary advantage over another be enough to bring down an entire ecosystem. "These patterns of speciations and extinctions, avalanching across ecosystems and time," warns Kauffman, are to be found in every chaotic system - human and biological. "We are all part of the same pageant," as he puts it. Thus, even in this...
Then, on the subsequent first down, Harvard's offensive line opened up a gaping hole, enabling Hu to drive ahead for a 17-yard gain to the Yale 26. Two Ferrara incompletions sand-wiched around a Hu four-yard gain set up a Ryan Korinke 40-yard field goal--only his second of the season. The seven-play drive, 42-yard drive put the Crimson back on top, 10-9, with 12:07 to play in the third quarter...