Geologic Time

Area oil gains value (Times Herald)

20 Jul 2008

In the early 1960s, Phillips Petroleum Co. drilled some exploratory wells in Sanilac County, about 5 miles inland from Port Sanilac.

American Society For Microbiology Honors Presented at the 108th General Meeting (Medical News Today)

20 Jul 2008

American Society for Microbiology honors Dianne K. Newman The 2008 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Eli Lilly and Company Research Award is being presented to Dianne K. Newman, Wilson Professor of Biology and Geobiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Desert solitude (Burlington Times-News)

20 Jul 2008

MOAB, Utah - The sun was setting behind a range of mountains perhaps 100 miles distant, and we were probably the last people in Arches National Park to see it. We'd climbed a redrock cliff behind the campsite, and we were higher up than anyone else in the campground.