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Whether these catastrophic impacts are random or cyclic remains to be seen. But if they occur at all, they could shake the foundations of evolutionary biology and call into question the current concept of natural selection. Should the Alvarez theory be correct, says Harvard Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, the importance of competition between species diminishes. If every so often a megablast opens up a broad array of ecological niches, then new creatures can flourish without having to crowd out the old. "If you ask the question, 'Why are we here?' " says Gould, "the answer is, 'Because the dinosaurs disappeared...
Beckman and Paul Palandjian continued the visitor's domination into the doubles matches by taking a 7-5, 6-4 victory at first doubles. The random normally plays second or third doubles, but was moved up yesterday to allow Scott a half...
Crack a Peter De Vries novel at random and you are likely to find a Midwesterner trying just a little too hard to keep from making a fool of himself among the sophisticates of the Northeast. The journey from Pocock, Ill., to Decency, Conn., has been played forward, backward and sideways, sometimes strictly for laughs and often, as in The Blood of the Lamb, to illustrate that comedy is not the opposite of tragedy but its Siamese twin...
...series of short takes from life among Buffalo's blue-blooded are strung together in what seems an almost random order. The play is certainly not bound by any timeline as it jumps from World War II to 1990 to the 1960's without so much as a CBS Newsbreak...
...only people who respond in this fashion. People are usually confused when confronted by my difficulty, as they would be by any unusual situation. Knee-jerk wit is a common reaction; however, the results of my unscientific survey reveal that more Harvard students react this way than do a random sample of those not blessed with Centers phones...