Word: shubin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mayor of Mudanjiang, Wang Shubin, wants to talk not about the soldiers but about local merchants, who have their own interest these days in the Soviet Union. Beijing and Moscow have authorized the Chinese province of Heilongjiang and the Soviet Union's Maritime province to conduct direct cross- border trade. Chinese and Soviet officials travel back and forth, comparing wish lists, displaying wares and negotiating barter deals. Since both countries have nonconvertible currencies and neither wants to expend precious reserves of hard currency, no money changes hands. The Chinese supply vegetables, prefabricated plastic greenhouses and textiles; the Soviets send back...
...opposition party took it very seriously. No one else did," said Shubin, a Currier House tutor...
...Neil H. Shubin, a fourth-year Harvard graduate student in biology, and Paul E. Olsen, a geology professor at Columbia University, had spent a relatively unproductive summer digging at the Nova Scotia site until a misadventure left them trapped by high tide near a cliff on the shore of the Bay of Fundy...
...Fossilgate" controversy is rapidly nearing extinction, because Grantham received the permit before Nunziata raised the issue in Parliament. Harvard and the Nova Scotia Museum are currently deciding the final home of the fossils, Shubin said...
Whether or not Anders is successful, the fossil trove is already providing fresh insights about the evolution of life on earth. Says Shubin: "The find is like a Rosetta stone. This period was one of tremendous geological upheaval. The continents were beginning to split apart, and there was a turnover among the animals. The modern world was basically set during this time...