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...more diverse - and thus more robust - than the Black Sea's. So only time will tell what kind of effect the Mnemiopsis will have. "What these jellyfish are eating are either the young of the next generation or the food of the next generation," says Bella Galil, a scientist at the National Institute of Oceanography in Israel. "We'll know the impact when what they ate does not appear in the nets next year...
Would and did, says the sheriff of Larimer County, Colorado. Richard Heene, a self-styled scientist obsessed with tornadoes, aliens and getting a reality show, allegedly spun a plan to fake his son's Icarus-meets-Up ascent and become famous. But fame bit Heene when, on Larry King Live, Falcon heard a question directed to him by his father and made the mistake of answering honestly: "You guys said that we did this for the show...
STEWART NOZETTE, a former NASA and Department of Energy scientist who was arrested on Oct. 19 for allegedly telling an undercover FBI agent that he would divulge classified information...
Austrian Political scientist Andreas Maislinger stressed the importance of remembering Austria’s role as a perpetrator in the Holocaust at an intimate discussion in the Adams Lower Common Room yesterday...
Sweeps even has its own terminology: "stunt casting", which pulls a high-profile star in for a short cameo or story arc. In 2003, former Superman Christopher Reeve briefly appeared on Smallville in 2003, playing a scientist examining the young Clark Kent. A show "jumps the shark" when its ratings stunts smack of desperation. The phrase was inspired by a a three-part Happy Days special in 1977 in which Fonzie jumped over a shark pen on water skis; fans point to it as the specific moment the show started its decline. (Jumpingtheshark.com is devoted to analyzing ratings stunts...