Word: weil
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...clear that mammals did fill some of the niches reserved for larger animals. "It's quite possible," says Anne Weil, a Duke University paleontologist who wrote a commentary accompanying the Nature report, "that they competed with dinosaurs for the same prey." And because they ate dinosaurs, she says, they may even have had an influence on dinosaur evolution. What sort of influence? "We don't know," she says. "That's how it is with the best finds. They leave you with more questions than answers." Those answers may be lurking under the barely scratched surface of Liaoning province. --Reported...
...cultural life, militantly contemporary, insatiable in her appetite for culture and truly, madly, deeply conversant with every new development in fiction, philosophy, film and art. With the great turbines of her critical judgment turning, Sontag patrolled the latest edges of world culture, bringing back news of the philosophers Simone Weil and Walter Benjamin, the novelist Witold Gombrowicz, the critic Roland Barthes, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard...
...Over these past three days, we?ve heard an abundance of good ideas. But I want to start with one very big idea that seems to underlie many of the other changes. Bill Dietz of the CDC, Niels Christiansen of Nestle and Dr. Andrew Weil all mentioned this: The challenge is to shift from an economy and eating habits that are quantity-driven to ones that are quality-driven...
...Andrew Weil, the final speaker of the night, said Americans should focus on the ?quality of food, not the quantity of food.? According to him, that shift in behavior is necessary at the personal level but he still believes that the obesity epidemic is a ?matter of collective responsibility and not just an individual choice.? According to Weil, grassroots organizations, the government, industries, and the individual all have to work together to end the epidemic. That's something we all could agree...
...Chaffetz, Simon E. Chin, Nathaniel J. Craig, James A.W. David, David, J. Hiniker, Joseph S. Hong, Daniel J. Irom, John K. Lai, Jonathan C.S. Leong, Zachary D. Liscow, Julia P.R. Mansfield, Sameer Narang, Kazi S. Rahman, Rosenbloom, Abdur R. Sabar, Stephanie L. Safdi, Brad M. Smith, Kevin M. Weil, Jonathan A. Weiss, Rebecca E. Wexler and Wolf...