Word: geologist
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BORN: Oct. 14, 1954, Terre Haute, Ind. EDUCATION: Eastern Illinois U, B.S., 1981; Biola U, Th.M., 1987; U of Missouri, J.D., 1993 FAMILY: Wife, Susan; six children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: Navy, 1975-79; Navy Reserve, 1979-85; Army Reserve, 1992-96 OCCUPATION: Farmer; geologist; educational-supply-company owner POLITICAL CAREER: Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: Box 462, Martinsville...
...list of this year's fellows also includes computer scientist Margo I. Seltzer '83' geologist Allison M. Mac-Farlance, Sculptor Elizabeth King and composer Shih-Hui Chen...
More than a third of Forbes' current supporters in the poll preferred Dole last November. Many of them cite Forbes' ideas and outsider status for their change of heart. "He's not looking over his shoulder at what somebody thinks about him," says Richard Riley, a retired geologist in Columbus, Ohio, and former Dole supporter. "Forbes energizes me." The next-biggest pool of new support for Forbes is among such people as Warren Snyder, a Suffolk, Virginia, phone-company worker who was undecided last fall. "I'm really against the people in Washington. I think Forbes might be refreshing," says...
...needed at a time when efforts are being made to emasculate and undermine the teaching of evolutionary biology in high schools. It is great to see a national magazine put the factual evidence of evolution's vast, complex story out there for the lay public. ANDREW M. KOENIGSBERG, geologist Framingham, Massachusetts Via E-mail...
What could have caused such indiscriminate carnage? Marauding comets, exploding stars, greenhouse warming, ice-age cooling, sea-level drops, sea-level rises, ocean stagnation, oxygen depletion--every calamity imaginable has been invoked to explain the Permian extinction. But none of these agents of doom, argues geologist Paul Renne, director of the Berkeley Geochron ol ogy Center in California (and lead author of the Science article), comes as close to explaining what happened at the end of the Permian as the rampant, prolonged volcanism that created the terrace-like formations known as the Siberian Traps...