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...spite of the many challenges, MacCready has little doubt that by recreating the original pterosaur's design, the Q.N. team will succeed. Says he: "Nature does nothing that is stupid. The only purpose of those huge wings would be to fly, and there is a certain amount of evidence that the pterosaur could fly pretty well." Paleontologist Langston is equally optimistic: "We fully expect this model to fly," he says. "If anyone can do it, MacCready can." --By Jamie Murphy. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles
...spite of its prevalence, radon is not ordinarily classified as a health hazard. Outdoors, the gas disperses quickly in the atmosphere. Indoors, however, radon can build up to a deadly concentration, entering buildings through their foundations, creeping through cracks in floors, foundation walls and sewer pipes. The gas quickly decays further into other elements, including radioactive bismuth and polonium, which can adhere to dust particles, be inhaled and become lodged in the respiratory system. No immediate physical symptoms occur; radon cancers have a 20-year latency period...
Against this background of gentle murmurings, Author Barry Hannah, 43, persists in making rude noises. Captain Maximus, his sixth book and second collection of stories, is full of spite, rage, booze and unregenerate boorishness. Not one of Hannah's two-fisted protagonists or narrators would perform well at a dinner party or charity bazaar. They resist gentrification. They hang around in scuzzy bars, wallowing in anarchic musings: "I thought of my books, my children, and the fact that almost everybody sells used cars or dies early. I used to get so angry about this issue that I would drag policemen...
...spite of some competition for enrollment—one student estimated that this spring roughly thirty students applied and twenty were admitted—efforts to debunk the myth of VES exclusivity abound. According to teaching assistant Tim A. Szetela ’03, the year-long course was recently divided into two semester-long classes to allow more students to enroll...
Despite its focus on a particular group of ladies, Beauty Shop is rooted in frank conversations that we could be having with our own packs of friends. In spite of some weaknesses, there is an undeniable charm to the actors, each of whom create a distinct character with a significant role in the film’s entertaining, side-splitting, and pertinent discussions of sexuality, race, and body image...