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What killed the dinosaurs? Scientists have been debating that one for a long time. They know that 65 million years ago, a large object, five or six miles across, blasted a 120-mile-wide crater at the tip of what today is Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. They also know that the impact, or more accurately, the worldwide, sunlight-blocking shroud of dust it kicked up, wiped out some 70% of the earth's plant and animal species--including the dinosaurs. But what, precisely, was the object that sealed their fate...
...such high speeds--many of them well over 100,000 m.p.h.--that they are usually completely melted and vaporized. But a typical asteroid hits at less than half that speed, and some fragments often survive. So why did this one turn up 5,400 miles away from the Yucatan impact site? Kyte believes it was flung by the explosion high above the atmosphere in a ballistic path that plopped it into the Pacific...
...slap in the face," said Mexican Ambassador Jesus Silva Herzog. The Mexican government brought another trophy to the bargaining table Thursday by capturing Gulf Cartel leader Oscar Malherbe de Leon, head of a major smuggling operation, and destroying a ton of cocaine seized by the Mexican navy on the Yucatan resort island of Cozumel. In announcing the recertification, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warned today that the decision was made "with firm expectations of further progress in the near term. We expect Mexico to work with us" particularly in "attacking corruption." Albright complained that "corruption is deeply rooted in Mexican...
...slap in the face," said Mexican Ambassador Jesus Silva Herzog. The Mexican government brought another trophy to the bargaining table Thursday by capturing Gulf Cartel leader Oscar Malherbe de Leon, head of a major smuggling operation, and destroying a ton of cocaine seized by the Mexican navy on the Yucatan resort island of Cozumel. In announcing the recertification, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warned today that the decision was made "with firm expectations of further progress in the near term. We expect Mexico to work with us" particularly in "attacking corruption." Albright complained that "corruption is deeply rooted in Mexican...
...least. But whatever the reason, Olmec society was in full flower by 1200 B.C., at a place known as San Lorenzo, on a fertile plain overlooking the Chiquito River. Like all the known Olmec sites, San Lorenzo is much less impressive than the Mayan cities that dot the Yucatan peninsula to the east. One reason: it supported only a few thousand people, rather than 100,000 or more. The major buildings and plazas were little more than earthen mounds covered with grass, lacking any sort of masonry facade and probably topped with pole-and-thatch houses...