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...remains ever found. For more than a generation, those estimates stood. Two years ago, however, a team headed by Swisher decided to find out just how old the fossils really were, using instruments that determine age by measuring radioactive decay in fossils that have absorbed uranium from the surrounding soil...
...painting curls of hair as if they were twirls of a whirlpool. In a premonition of the Gaia hypothesis, which compares the planet to a living organism, he writes poetically, "We may say that the earth has a spirit of growth, and that its flesh is the soil; its bones are the successive strata of the rocks...its cartilage is the tufa stone; its blood the veins of its waters...
...Michel Peissel and British photographer Sebastian Guinness say they have located the gold-digging ants on Pakistan's Dansar plain near the tense 1949 cease-fire line with India. The "ants," it turns out, are actually marmots, cat-size rodents that burrow in a gold-bearing stratum of sandy soil a few feet underground. Peissel believes Herodotus' confusion came from the ancient Persian word for marmot, which means mountain...
...What we're hoping for," says Norm Haynes, a director of the Mars exploration program, "is a ship that will return a soil sample from Mars. That's the long-range goal of the program." Smaller ships, it appears, may not get a human being to Mars, but they may help bring a bit of Mars back to Earth...
BORN: Feb. 22, 1938, Fines Creek EDUCATION: North Carolina State U, 1956-57 FAMILY: Divorced; seven children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Agribusiness POLITICAL CAREER: North Carolina Soil and Water Conservation Commission, 1967-; Haywood County school board, 1970-74, 1982-1990; Chair, Southwestern North Carolina Resource Conservation and Development Council, 1995- ADDRESS: Route 3, Box 43, Clyde...