Re: Nature of the fossil record

[rowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mickey Rowe)]

Jere Lipps writes:

>2.  Newt Gingrich, our new self-proclaimed leader in the US, may know what
>he's doing when he proposes cutting the USGS.  I heard a rumor that he was
>a paleontology major before he took up law.   We should ask him.

For those of you that wish to do so, he can supposedly be reached at:

GEORGIA6@HR.HOUSE.GOV

For the record, I don't think he was actually a paleontology major (I
could well be wrong, but what institutions actually offer paleontology
as a major anyways?), but he does have a longstanding interest in
fossils in general and dinosaurs in particular (according to
Newsweek).

-- 
Mickey Rowe     (rowe@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu)

P.S. I recently read (in the Dec. 29th issue of _Science_, I think)
that the USGS is likely to get spared the US government's looming axe.
Let's all hope!