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Around the time of the mass extinction, the fossil site was apparently in a 300-mile-long rift valley fringed with high mountains. The climate swung between wet and dry spells every 20,000 years or so, leaving telltale alternating layers of lake sediments and sandstone visible on the present-day cliffs. "When it rained," says Olsen, "chunks of rock and mud raced down the mountainsides and buried large swaths of ground." Many of the now fossilized animals escaped the slides, only to be trapped in cracks that opened as the mud flow dried and shrank. Olsen believes the animals...
Finally, now that Cambridge has moved its bus stops--and the accompanying wooden shelters that kept people warm and dry--from Cambridge Common to the underground shelter beneath Harvard Square, will the College erect a shelter for cold and wet shuttle riders across from the old burying ground? Or will it possibly find a route system that is less complex and doesn't require you to wait for more than 15 minutes for a bus? Don't bet on it. For as sure as death and taxes, it's a long way from the suburbs to the city...
...letter asked whether Vienna, W. Va. (pop. 13,000), had any motorcycles, hospital beds, sewing machines, wheelchairs, buses or other equipment to spare. After Mayor William Owens finished reading it, he did what any skeptic would do: he tested the signature by running a wet finger over it. The name Jose Duarte smudged. Says Owens: "It was real." The solicitation was one of more than 100 that El Salvador's President Duarte, himself a former mayor (of San Salvador, the capital), has sent to American cities requesting assistance for his war-ravaged nation. Though many of the mayors contacted...
...Joseph Jamail and Chairman J. Hugh Liedtke exchanged bear hugs and laughed aloud. When a reporter asked a jubilant Liedtke whether he still might settle with Texaco, he replied, "We're always willing to discuss matters. The problem is that dealing with Texaco is like trying to frisk a wet seal...
Well I'm afraid "the cold wet fish of truth" is just slapping us around. We must "reconsider [our] basic assumptions...