Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago.(Book...

Science News;  February 18, 2006 ;     158 words ...EXTINCTION: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago DOUGLAS H. ERWIN While most...of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, few know of the earlier...Permian period, 250 million years ago. He first introduces the common...

Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago

Northeastern Naturalist;  October 1, 2006 ;     129 words ...Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago. Douglas H. Erwin. 2006. Princeton University Press...catastrophic extinction at the end of the Permian, 250 million years ago, when nearly 95% of all living species disappeared...

CD REVIEW: Relient K's 'Five Score & Seven Years Ago' generic, boring

University Wire;  April 13, 2007 ;     438 words ......I'm not entirely sure what happened 107 years ago, unless they're referring to the Boer...but Relient K's "Five Score and Seven Years Ago" is certainly a celebration of something...released, its first coming out seven years ago. It's not really exciting in comparison...

TEN YEARS AGO: BRUINS, BOMBING IN HEADLINES.(SPORTS)(MIKE LUCAS)(Column)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  March 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Mike Lucas Ten years ago ... UCLA, Kansas, Kentucky and Wake...Wooden's last championship season. Ten years ago ... The University of Wisconsin women...the NCAA women's tournament. Ten years ago ... Wisconsin athletic director Pat...

September theater almanac.(Front and Center)(Openings, performances and...

American Theatre;  September 1, 2003 ;     349 words ...100 YEARS AGO (1903): The William Randolph Hearst Greek...Sarah Bernhardt and George M. Cohan. 80 YEARS AGO (1923): The Cleveland Play House opens...experimental theatres in America. 70 YEARS AGO (1933): Ethel Waters sings the song Supper...

PENCE SAYS WE ARE BETTER OFF TODAY THAN WE WERE FOUR YEARS AGO

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  May 19, 2004 ;     273 words ......ARE BETTER OFF TODAY THAN WE WERE FOUR YEARS AGO Washington, D.C.- U.S. Congressman Mike...are better off today than we were four years ago. This question, made famous by Ronald...we better off today then we were four years ago?' "Let's think. Four years ago we had...

Ranch View student knows school a great deal different 30 years ago

Naperville Sun, The (IL);  April 22, 2003 ;     471 words ......differences between schools today and 30 years ago. Two basic similarities are kids' rights...good education. That was also a right 30 years ago. Today students have the responsibility...the property of fellow students. Thirty years ago, students had many of these same ...

Time machine.(survey of articles from Popular Mechanics, 10, 20, 30, 40,...

Popular Mechanics;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...100 Years Ago: July 1902 Make Mine Electric Electricity...inside it. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] 90 Years Ago: July 1912 Liner Notes Suggestions for...development. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] 80 Years Ago: July 1922 Construction Sight A dream...

Study says glaciers sat near L.A. 5,000 years ago

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  August 14, 2003 ;     374 words ......now-sweltering Los Angeles as recently as 5,000 years ago, according to a new study. The glaciers...of the last Ice Age, beginning 20,000 years ago. Lewis Owen, of the University of California...years, the last between 9,000 and 5,000 years ago. The glaciers eventually vanished as...

Thirty years ago. (poem)

The American Poetry Review;  March 1, 1994 ;     380 words ...I passed this way thirty years ago. Four days and nights by train...two hours and ten minutes... Thirty years ago songs filled the train--songs like...youth still fill the train. Thirty years ago a Komsomol girl rode the train in...

Study: Glaciers on doorstep of Los Angeles just 5,000 years ago

AP Worldstream;  August 13, 2003 ;     385 words ......now-sweltering Los Angeles as recently as 5,000 years ago, according to a new study. The glaciers...of the last Ice Age, beginning 20,000 years ago. Lewis Owen, of the University of California...years, the last between 9,000 and 5, 000 years ago. The glaciers eventually vanished as...

web search; A MONTHLY LOOK AT ANNIVERSARIES; Churchill makes `curtain'...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 1, 2006 ;     601 words ...Byline: Bill Dawson; Staff Writer MARCH 25 YEARS AGO: Sands begins hunger strike - March 1...com/hungerstrikes/bios/sands.html. 60 YEARS AGO: Ho Chi Minh elected - March 2, 1946...www.answers.com/topic/ho-chi-minh. 15 YEARS AGO: L.A. police beat Rodney King - March...

Rocks reflect existence of life 2.7 billion years ago Discovery pushes...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 13, 1999 ;     413 words ......of life existed on the Earth 2.7 billion years ago, 500 million to 1 billion years earlier...fossils to have appeared by 3.5 billion years ago, and possibly as long ago as 3.8 billion years ago. The Earth is about 4.6 billion years old...

More people feel worse off versus 4 years ago, New Hampshire poll shows.

Telegraph (Nashua, NH);  October 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ......financially better off now than they were four years ago. Pettyjohn was making $38,000 a year...Parker-Chomerics in Hudson just three years ago. Then he was laid off, leaving him to...financially secure now than they did four years ago depends on whom you ask -- making the...

Did first Americans come 18,000 years ago?

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  July 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ......probably occurred no earlier than 18,000 years ago. The new estimate undermines earlier...colonization occurred as far back as 30,000 years ago but reinforces archaeological findings...hunters in North America, starting 13,600 years ago. The few sites with possibly older human...