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This isn't exactly the stamp of approval most scientists look for, though, and in this case the puffery is especially unfortunate because the actual scientific finding, described in a paper published on May 19 in the online journal PLoS One, really is important. First, the young mammal, which would have looked like a cross between a lemur and a small monkey, is astonishingly complete. "Most of what we understand about primate evolution is pieced together from bits of teeth and jaws," says Michael Novacek, curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. Ida, by contrast, has pretty...
Like a lot of architects, Piano grimaces when people ask him about his style. "I hate the idea," he says. "It's a dangerous thing, a rubber stamp you put on the world." What he believes in, he says, "is the value of transparency and light. This is not a style. This is just an attitude...
...should be a lot more discreet about what he says in public, given the sensitivities involved, especially at a time when emotions are running high, not only in Sri Lanka, but elsewhere as well," Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona said. Weiss has overstepped his mandate, Kohona says, effectively giving a stamp of authenticity to unverified claims about the war. The Sri Lankan government has made it all but impossible to verify any claims about events inside the war zone by refusing requests for unmonitored access by independent journalists...
...first athlete to appear on a Philippines postage stamp...
Despite some brief humiliation, Lewis got the one things he wanted: he still runs Bank of America and has a rubber-stamp board that supports...