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...problem with these theories, observed scientists attending a workshop on the Permian extinction held by the Smithsonian Institution last week, is that they are still highly speculative. For instance, the geological record clearly shows that a staggering drop in sea level-perhaps as much as 300 ft.--did in fact occur during the Permian. But there is no evidence that global cooling triggered by volcanism was the cause. Similarly, new analyses of late Permian soils suggest that a substantial surge of acid rain accompanied the extinction. Acid rain, however, does not require a volcanic source. It could also have been...
...Smithsonian paleobiologist Douglas Erwin warned his colleagues last week, it is dangerous to try to explain a complex calamity like the Permian extinction in simplistic terms. The Great Dying, Erwin believes, was produced by an interplay of many forces--"a tangled web rather than a single mechanism"--and if paleontologists and geologists want to sort out the puzzle, they must spend long hours in the field searching for further clues. Even after scientists reach a consensus about what caused the extinction, observes Renne, a central mystery will remain. What is it about life, he marvels, that enables it to rebound...
Serving up a menu of untrimmed red meat, Buchanan's first goal has been to win over social conservatives who are pivotal in early-primary states. He promises term limits for federal judges, a Smithsonian Institution that respects American values and a no-exceptions ban on abortion. He has warmed up his rhetoric about tax cuts to woo the supply-side supporters of Jack Kemp and attacks Dole and Gramm as government huggers who won't go far enough in cutting the budget...
...dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 50 years ago and brought World War II to an end. Eight people unfurled banners from the second floor balcony above the main entrance to the museum, some shouting, "Never again! Never again!" They also threw pamphlets down at people entering the museum. Smithsonian Secretary Michael Heyman revised the exhibit -- which originally included graphic depictions of the damage and deaths caused by the bomb -- five times to satisfy congressional critics and outraged veterans' groups. Today, he said: "This is the Enola Gay. It dropped the bomb that ended the war . It doesn't take...
RESIGNED. MARTIN HARWIT, 64, head of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum; in Washington. Harwit fell victim to the controversy over a planned exhibition of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atom bomb. Outraged veterans believed the exhibit would have been too sympathetic to Japanese views of World...