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Where no written records exist, restorationists turn to the geological record. Pollen preserved in layers of mud, for example, enabled a University of Arizona scientist to determine that a thousand years ago, the Nature Conservancy's Hassayampa River Preserve near Phoenix was covered by a marshy grassland unique to the Southwest. But the presence of corn pollen indicated that 500 years ago, Native Americans had farmed the site. "So do we restore this area to the way it was before the Native Americans disturbed it?" wonders the Nature Conservancy's Richter. "If it's not natural now, then when...
Wilson is, in fact, Radcliffe's first postfeminist president. A precise thinker, the scientist-administrator would certainly not be comfortable with such an ill-defined term--but neither is she with describing herself as a feminist...
...certainly a source of wisdom for us," said Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson. "She was a distinguished scientist, a leader in scientific education, nationally known...
...capture public favor -- and scarce research money -- more and more scientists are indulging in overripe theatrics. Marine geologist Robert Ballard of Woods Hole, Mass., for example, hyped his search for the wreck of the Titanic to lure funds for more serious efforts to develop sophisticated underwater cameras and robots. "It's a very fuzzy line," says Barry Gold of the National Academy of Sciences. "When is a scientist a good entrepreneur, and when does he become P.T. Barnum...
...controversial chief of staff fancies himself as the real science expert in the White House (although the job of science adviser officially belongs to another conservative scientist, D. Allan Bromley). Unfortunately, this means the administration opposes many global environmental protections...