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...libraries from retiring Harvard professors, or those who die,” he said, citing as noteworthy recent acquisitions the collections of evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino university professor emeritus, and Thomas Professor of the History of Science emeritus I. Bernard Cohen—whose collection included a number of Isaac Newton’s manuscripts...
...been said that you can gauge her mood by whether her hair is straight (foul) or curly (ebullient). These days her mane is growing wild, with good reason. She and her husband, New York Times reporter Bernard Weinraub, have their first child, and with hits like Panic Room, Spider-Man and Men in Black II, the chairman of Sony's Columbia Pictures has generated more than $1 billion at the box office this year. Some in Hollywood are skeptical about the profitability of films with such expensive stars and special effects, but her summer slate of pictures has broken...
...EXPLANATION] The White House says there is a big difference between Bush's loans, which were a common practice, and gross abuses like WorldCom's $400 million insider loan to CEO Bernard Ebbers...
...hope of life," in the local Goran language), has a mix of apelike and hominid features. And to some paleontologists, the hominid features, especially the face, are a lot more modern-looking than anyone would have expected at so early an evolutionary stage. "A hominid of this age," writes Bernard Wood of George Washington University, in a commentary accompanying the Nature articles, "...should certainly not have the face of a hominid less than one-third of its geological...
Where exactly Toumai falls in the evolutionary scheme of things, though, depends largely on whom you ask. A number of distinguished paleontologists, including Bernard Wood, Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and Chris Stringer of London's Natural History Museum, perceive the face to be jarringly modern--more modern even than Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, which is between 3.6 million and 2.9 million years old--and thus quite different from what they expected to see in such an ancient hominid...