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...celebration includes a symposium on the state of higher education at which Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, a 1971 Law School alumnus, will speak and a ball to which the entire undergraduate population will be invited...
According to Kuban, whose conclusions were presented last month at a New Mexico symposium on dinosaur tracks and traces and printed in the current issue of the journal Creation/Evolution, the Paluxy tracks have been known to local folk since being uncovered by a 1908 flash flood. The world learned of them in the 1930s, when residents set up roadside stands to sell both real and fake samples of the footprints. When paleontologists went to investigate the source, they saw dinosaur tracks but found the man tracks too indistinct to identify...
...whether some dinosaurs stepped heel first, however, remains. Kuban's contention that they came down on their metatarsals "fundamentally reorganizes what we know about the foot anatomy of bipedal dinosaurs," says David Gillette, curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and organizer of the symposium. University of Texas Paleontologist Wann Langston is not so sure. Since Kuban is not an anatomy expert, Langston maintains, " the jury is still...
Williams plans to present a symposium in September at the 350th celebrations on these findings as well as other archeological finds at Harvard...
Speaking as a panelist in the symposium "Medicare: Coming of Age," William L. Roper claimed that the federal program had removed the incentive for cost control. "By making the government responsible for paying the bills, this program opened the doors to overcharging," he said...