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...males emerging from the brisk waters of the Bering Sea. As the big males toss the 110-lb. females around like beach toys, my first thought is that male fur seals have not yet embraced feminism. Springer, though, has no time for such anthropomorphic musing. The Colorado State University scientist is there to retrieve dead pups, which he gingerly extracts from the seal-covered shore by snagging them with a noose on a long pole. He'll take the tiny corpses back to a lab for autopsies. The work will tell him what ailed the pups when they died...
Still, since today's greenhouse gases will remain in the atmosphere for a century even if all further emissions are cut off immediately, environmentalists are growing increasingly concerned that their window of opportunity to slow down warming is slamming shut. Says Michael Oppenheimer, the Environmental Defense Fund's chief scientist: "The world is already committed to a significant level of warming, no matter what...
...convict a spy, you need to prove that a crime was actually committed, and then prove that it was committed by the accused. That?s why former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee is unlikely to be charged with espionage, despite achieving national notoriety in the spring following reports that China had stolen U.S. nuclear secrets. If he is charged it will be on the not-exactly-treacherous charge of gross negligence in handling classified information ? all too common among Lee?s colleagues and other government officials ?- although Lee?s lawyers are meeting with Justice Department officials Tuesday to make...
...your way to the MFA, take an interesting detour at the world headquarter of the First Church of Christ Scientist (T: Symphony, Green Line). The nineteenth century Mother Church is to the Christian Scientists what St. Peter's in Rome is to Catholics...
...your way to the MFA, take an interesting detour at the world headquarter of the First Church of Christ Scientist (T: Symphony, Green Line). The nineteenth century Mother Church is to the Christian Scientists what St. Peter's in Rome is to Catholics...