Primate suspect

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Anthropologist Sarah Hrdy, professor at the University of California at Davis, freely admits that she was taking some major risks when she announced the findings of her research into the sacred langur monkeys in Rahasthan, India, but argues that scientists take risks all the time. Hrdy showed that female langurs mated with the male langurs who had killed their babies, but was prevented from taking the blood samples that would have provided conclusive proof of her findings. She admits that she has suffered stress and misery as a result of bringing feminist ideas into anthropology.

Women anthropologists, Hrdy, Sarah

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More Gaitskells, fewer Hugh Grants

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British academic Alan Ryan had expected to remain at Princeton until retirement, but the opportunity of becoming warden of New College, Oxford, England, was too good to miss. Ryan wants to make New College more ambitious, explaining that too many of its students have been getting 2(ii)s when they should be getting 2(i)s and too many have been getting 2(i)s when they should be getting firsts. However he proudly points out that more women than men at New College obtain firsts. Ryan is not really interested in the number of New College students who come from state schools.

Officials and employees, University of Oxford, Ryan, Alan

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The interesting hole in Yucatan

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UK researchers hope that a Sep. 1996 expedition to measure a massive crater in the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, will help determine why dinosaurs died out. The 500,000 pounds sterling expedition is part of a wider international effort. Most scientists agree that the Chicxulub crater was caused by a meteorite or a comet. However, there is disagreement over how big the hole is, and whether one meteorite could so affect the climate, air and food chain as to lead to the extinction of many species at the end of the Cretaceous period.

Research, Dinosaurs, Craters, Mass extinction

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