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Ones that got away - March 23, 2009

“If this was a year ago, the outcome would have been a totally different situation.”
Jake Chait, of the I.M. Chait Gallery in New York, explains that the credit crunch has even reached the fossil market, as a 9-foot-long dryosaurus skeleton fails to reach its reserve price (NY Daily News).

“I truly believe that this is a different time. The opportunities are enormous, despite all the economic and other challenges.”
Jane Lubchenco, the new administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, talks to the NY Times Dot Earth blog.

2009 Mission Madness
NASA devises a silly game to waste time one. Go Skylab!

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