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The new dating technique was conceived by Chemist Jeffrey Bada of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography while he was trying to date some fossil-laden sediment from the ocean floor. The standard method for determining the age of fossils is the so-called carbon 14 clock, which is based on...
"I'm all for evolution rather than revolution," he commented. "That's partly to do with my age, and partly to do with my make up."
The process of evolution he believes in is not a rapid one. "Take a step and see how it works out," he says. "But I don't mean take a step this year and take another step next year. You've got to think in generational terms, which is only...
Hugh Hefner, now 46 and the boss of a pleasure-products empire that has made him a millionaire 120 times over, sees both Oui and the changes in Playboy as logical evolution: "Some of Playboy's strengths are also its weaknesses. Almost 20 years have gone by since we...
The winners were: First prize of $25, Carolyn Jabs for her poem "Sonnet in Terza Rima." Carolyn is a 1972 graduate of Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio. She was a student in the Harvard Summer School Publishing Procedures course. Since Monday, August 14th, she has been working for Harper Row...