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Shapiro, who is also the Director of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, hopes to get information out to 80 percent of the radius of the universe with the new technique which involves the gravitational effects of large masses on light...
...colleagues are more cautious about Protoavis' perch in the evolutionary tree, but most agree that it is a significant find. "It's hard not to make a bird out of it," says Paleontologist Nicholas Hotton III of the Smithsonian Institution. But he is reluctant to render a final verdict. If additional Protoavis specimens bolster Chatterjee's interpretation, it would indicate that birds appeared and diversified much earlier than scientists had believed. "Paleontology is like dealing with a 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle for which you only have 15," says Ostrom. "This fossil gives you another 15 or 20 pieces...
Dunkin' Donuts? You betcha. The dozen students were caught up in a course on American lingo, an offering sponsored by the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program. Before their five weeks are up, those who enroll will study hundreds of words and phrases that are as easy as pie to the American on the street but off the wall to someone trained only in textbook English. Grass roots, for instance. And deejay. Far-out stuff like that...
...goal of the exchange is for each country to see how the other perceives itself, its landscapes, its history," said Dee Bennett, a spokesman for the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibit Service, which is acting as curator of the collection during the U.S. showing...
...other galleries chosen to house the collection are the David and Alfred Smart Gallery of the University of Chicago and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington...