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...hard to gauge what these dramatic developments portend, for despite scientists' best efforts, Antarctica--the highest, dryest, coldest continent on the planet--remains a climatological cipher. For example, while it is clear that the Antarctic Peninsula--a thin sliver of land that juts above the Antarctic Circle--has been rapidly warming, the vast empty spaces of East Antarctica, repository of the greatest ice sheet on earth, appear to be doing the opposite. "Here we have a continent that is so important to our future," says earth scientist Peter Doran of the University of Illinois at Chicago...
...track the travails of Clark Kent on the small screen in the hit WB television series Smallville, with a teenage Kent played by TOM WELLING. Reeve, who was paralyzed in a horseback-riding accident in 1995, will make a guest appearance on the show on Feb. 25, playing a scientist who is researching the planet Krypton. At the end of the show, Reeve and Welling will appear in a public-service announcement for the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation...
SIGHTING Watching big hulking men play in the Super Bowl, viewers paying attention to the commercials also got their first look at another Hulk: actor ERIC BANA, who plays scientist Bruce Banner in a movie due out in June; his green alter ego is computer generated...
...remember Leonardo as a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect and scientist. Yet if one is to judge by the self-advertising letter he sent to Sforza in Milan in 1481, he didn't rate his skills that way. Before anything else, he listed his strategic ingenuity: he could design portable bridges, drain moats, bombard strongholds, design and cast siege cannon, make fireproof ships, and so on and on. Not until item No. 10, the last on his list, did he get around to saying that in painting too he could "do everything possible as well as any other." There may have...
...example, British academic Mona Baker dismissed two Israeli academics from the editorial boards of her journals last summer. Her only reason was their nationality. In another instance, the journal Science editorialized over the summer on the unacceptability of researchers refusing to share scientific materials with Israeli colleagues. By convention, scientists must honor requests for materials to allow others to reproduce their work. Science editor Donald Kennedy wrote that his journal would “continue to insist that authors have an obligation to share material.” The editorial was prompted by a researcher refusing to share materials with...