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...however, a study in the Journal of the Geological Society throws all that into question. The asteroid impact and dinosaur extinction, say the authors, may not have been simultaneous, instead occurring 300,000 years apart. That's an eyeblink in geologic time, but it's a relevant eyeblink all the same - one that occurred at just the right moment in ancient history to send the extinction theory entirely awry. (See pictures of meteors striking the earth...
...immunity. Keller and Addate do not see any reason to stray so far from the prevailing model. Some kind of atmospheric haze might indeed have blocked the sun, making the planet too cold for the dinosaurs - it just didn't have to have come from an asteroid. Rather, they say, the source might have been massive volcanoes, like the ones that blew in the Deccan Traps in what is now India at just the right point in history...
...Upside of Danger I truly appreciate the nonpartisan tone Kurt Andersen took in his essay "The End of Excess" [April 6]. I say this not because I think America should become nonpartisan but because being a partisan nation has and will continue to make us the greatest nation on the planet. At the end of the day, we need to realize that the only thing we are entitled to is a chance. Ryan Hanson, RHINELANDER...
Dentistry is among the services most in demand. "I've had patients come in and say, 'I want to make sure I use all my insurance benefits before the end of the year," says Woody Oakes, a dentist in New Albany, Indiana, and editor of The Profitable Dentist magazine. "Ireland, the U.K., Brazil - dentists everywhere are telling me the same thing." Along with their smiles, employees are also rushing to look after their sight: Specsavers, a U.K. eyeglasses retailer with 12,000 corporate clients, saw year-on-year growth of 40% in 2008, despite the downturn. Corporate insurance provider CIGNA...
...Kabul Women's Rights Under Siege Shouting slogans like "You are a dog, not a Shi'ite woman!" a group of nearly 1,000 Afghan men and women surrounded protesters at a rally against the Shi'ite personal status law. Human-rights groups say the controversial legislation, approved in March, effectively sanctions marital rape and regulates when women may leave their homes. Some counter-demonstrators began throwing stones before police intervened. Though President Hamid Karzai has agreed to review the law, Mohammad Asif Mohseni, the country's top Shi'ite cleric, accused U.N. and U.S. critics of "cultural invasion." Meanwhile...