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« Cheney and torture | Main | Football and free trade » Thursday, October 26, 2006A meteoric demiseMost geologists think they not only know that a giant meteor (and the resultant climate change) killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, but even where that meteor hit: the Yucatan peninsula. They found the crater's remnants 15 years ago. But as the Philadelphia Inquirer explains, an iconoclastic female geologist at Princeton thinks they've pinned the crime on the wrong meteor. Word Watch bonus: The otherwise fine article includes a sentence that begins this way: "Researchers first proposed that a meteor killed the dinosaurs in 1980 ..." That theory, presumably, was shot down fairly quickly. Posted by Christopher Shea at 05:15 PM
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