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...teeming with life, and this single, stunning insight into late-Precambrian ecology, believes Grotzinger, is bound to reframe the old argument over the vendobionts. For whether they are animal ancestors or evolutionary dead ends, says Grotzinger, Dickinsonia and its cousins can no longer be thought of as sideshow freaks. Along with the multitudes of small, shelly organisms and enigmatic burrowers that riddled the sea floor with tunnels and trails, the vendobionts have emerged as important clues to the Cambrian explosion. "We now know," says Grotzinger, "that evolution did not proceed in two unrelated pulses but in two pulses that beat...
...live mouse with a human ear growing out of its back? Surely it's a freak or a fake, something out of a carnival sideshow or supermarket tabloid? No, the startling creature that showed up in newspapers and on television last week is quite real and actually serves a scientific purpose. It is the latest and most dramatic demonstration of progress in tissue engineering, a new line of research aimed at replacing body parts lost to disease, accident or, as is often the case with a missing ear, a schoolyard fight...
...scandal in which Williams accepted free lodging during five trips to Las Vegas, then lied about doing so. The city council backed Williams over Greenebaum's police commission, but Williams filed a claim against the city for leaking the report, then settled out of court--a shabby little sideshow to the O.J. spectacle...
...even as the number of banks dwindles, new options for customers are opening up. "Electronic banking will make the current wave of mergers seem like a small sideshow," bank analyst Sheshunoff says. Within five years, he predicts, some customers will routinely "surf the Internet for higher yields on deposits and lower interest on loans...
Nothing is more morbidly intriguing, more chillingly compelling than an account of a malfunctioning mind, as medical writers have learned to their great profit. The victims of mental disease or brain damage are fascinating, not simply as exhibits in a neurological sideshow but also as stark demonstrations of how fragile reality can be. Most people agree, within limits, on the objective character of the world around them. Yet while the victims of mental disorders are certainly conscious and aware, their worlds are profoundly different from those of most of us. What can it possibly feel like, we wonder, to live...