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...noon the winter season starts off with a bang when the women's fencing team duels a team from Southeastern Massachusetts University (SMU). At 2 p.m. the men fencers will slice through what is left...
...billion-year-old rocks Barghoorn and Knoll collected during a visit last year revealed no traces of early life. But the scientists soon uncovered the stones' secrets. Returning to Harvard with samples of the rock, the pair used a diamond cutter's saw to slice several chunks into wafers so thin that light could pass through them. Examining these sections under a microscope, they discovered thousands of microfossils of individual and paired cells, some long and thin, others flat, wrinkled or folded, but all similar to those found in rocks dating from a much later period...
...bone, you note similarities and differences." The shape of the pelvis tells clearly whether its erstwhile owner walked on all fours or stood erect. Teeth, which are frequently preserved because of their tough, protective enamel, tell even more. Animals that eat meat need teeth shaped to cut and slice; vegetarians need broad molars to chew their fibrous foods. Fossilized bones can indicate a creature's size and weight, just as the length of a thigh bone of a modern human can be used to accurately estimate his height. But often anthropologists must interpolate. Anatomists studying jawless skulls of Australopithecus...
...surprised that a person in Food Services would make a statement like that," Weissbecker said, adding that a meal consisting of a glass of milk, a slice of toast and a cup of instant oatmeal provides about 28 per cent of a person's suggested protein...
Short Eyes Shot at "the Tombs" house of detention in New York City, this film offers a brutally honest slice of prison life, and it is completely devoid of the mawkish hand wringing that has characterized most other American jailhouse movies. There are no bad-guy guards to hiss at, no latter-day Birdmen of Alcatraz to root for. Writer Miguel Pinero, who served five years at Sing Sing for armed robbery and is currently under indictment for other crimes, asks the audience to see his characters for exactly what they...