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...long run, however, low tech may endure. Terry Erwin, a research entomologist and curator at the Smithsonian Institution, thinks in terms of millions of years. Humans may be the most successful species on the planet after the insects, Erwin says, but we have triggered a global species extinction that rivals those caused by ice ages, floods and killer asteroids--with a difference. "Those extinctions were more or less local, zonal or regional," says Erwin. "The present trend, the so-called sixth massive extinction process, is worldwide and atmospheric, totally pervasive...
...cronies have become highly proficient. Russell Eberst of Edinburgh, Scotland, has made some 170,000 orbital observations over a storied career. Mike McCants of Austin, Texas, has spent hours on end scanning the sky for lost satellites. Especially gifted is Jonathan McDowell, a researcher at the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astro-physics who can process orbital data like a super-computer...
Somewhat startled, Meijer held his ground. "Henry, if we don't acquire the ladder, it will end up in the bowels of the Smithsonian." To which, an annoyed Kissinger shot back, "That's a good place...
...first 36 years of marriage, the Duckworths lived together. In the early days, Sandra often accompanied Don, then an entomologist for the Smithsonian, as he traveled the world collecting insects--at least six new moths were named after her. And when he got the Bishop Museum job in 1984, just after Sandra had been re-elected as Fairfax County supervisor, she and their three children moved with him to Honolulu. Both say that was the most difficult time of their marriage...
...million Amount the Smithsonian Institution will pay a Chinese wildlife fund to rent two giant pandas for 10 years...