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...point at which camp and Harvard interesect most explicitly is the Freshman Outdoors Program (FOP). “FOP is definitely summer-campish,” FOP Leader Samuel B. Smolley ’05 says. FOPpers play games like the strangely named Ground Squirrel, which is “probably the only time you’ll hear a Harvard student say ‘shake that bushy tail.’ All dignity goes out the window and it’s a good thing.” FOP Leader Natasha M. Pasternack ’03 agrees...
...discovered in northeastern China have provided surprising new evidence on the evolution of birds, a group of Chinese paleontologists reported in the journal Nature this month. The dinosaur, given the name Microraptor gui, appears to have used its feathers to glide from tree to tree, much like a flying squirrel. Its gliding motion supports the theory that birds, which are believed to have evolved from dinosaurs, took their first flight from the trees down, not from the ground up, as a competing theory maintains. Microraptor gui was relatively small--about 3 ft. long from head to tail--and died...
...night can cause enough damage to dopamine neurons in the brain to lead to parkinsonism--a condition similar to Parkinson's disease that is characterized by tremors, sluggishness and balance problems. Scientists at Johns Hopkins arrived at this conclusion by studying the effects of high doses of ecstasy on squirrel monkeys and baboons, but believe the results may apply to humans as well. --BY SORA SONG...
...Saddam paid German scientists to help assemble hundreds of gas centrifuges to cook bomb-grade enriched uranium from tons of raw ore. The Germans are gone now, and so are nearly all those centrifuges, although both the Atomic Energy Agency and U.S. intelligence say Iraq probably managed to squirrel away a dozen. But even if the Iraqis could put those centrifuges back together without foreign help and operate them around the clock, in five years they still could not distill enough highly enriched uranium to make one bomb. Saddam could make one faster by stealing or buying enriched uranium...
...digital arm, Blue Sky, was hyped to all age groups via a marketing campaign that cost about $25 million. Burger King created a new frozen Ice Age drink for the kids. The older, Simpsons-watching audience saw a TV spot featuring the film's Scrat character (a nervous squirrel-rat hybrid with a fondness for acorns) that contained a double entendre about nuts...