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Central Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid, treeless in Late Jurassic
At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent Gondwana.
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Editorial: EPA appointment could be coup for clean air
The Environmental Protection Agency sent a strong message with its appointment of Al Armendariz to the region's top post: It's time to clear the air.
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ElectraTherm Completes $5.4 Million in Additional Funding
ElectraTherm, Inc. today announced the successful completion of additional funding totaling $5.4 million.
Loren Deane Miller passed on peacefully asleep on October 29, 2009. Loren was born to George Leroy Miller and Laura Ernestine Thrall on May 13, 1926, in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Bush Library fundraising tops $200 million...
Bush Library fundraising tops $200 million Former President George W. Bush has raised $212 million of $300 million for the library at Southern Methodist University that will house his papers, The Dallas Morning News reported Nov.
Smu professor named new Epa regional chief for Texas, four other states 2:34 PM CT
Dr. Al Armendariz, a Southern Methodist University engineering professor who has sharply criticized federal and state regulators for not cracking down hard enough on North Texas air polluters, has been named the Environmental Protection Agency's new regional administrator over Texas and four other states.
Public Defender Glides Between Courtroom and Ballet Studio
By day, Valerie Shelton-Tabor serves as an assistant public defender in the Dallas County Public Defender's Office .
Portable 3-D laser technology preserves Texas dinosaur's rare footprint
Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse in the 1930s.
MIDLAND Former first lady Laura Bush was greeted by a chorus of Bynum School students, serenading her with "Happy Birthday" on video, shortly before she took the podium at the Midland Center Tuesday evening.
Review: Dallas Theater Center Debuts at the Wyly
For its debut in its new home in the Wyly Theatre, the Dallas Theater Center has taken William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - and pumped up the volume.
Survey: North Texas CEOs fairly optimistic
Chief executive officers of Dallas-Fort Worth companies by and large have a favorable outlook when it comes to the local area's economic future, according to the latest SMU Cox CEO Sentiment Survey.
f you liked the Bush presidency, you'll love the Bush Policy Institute
For those in the know, there was little surprise in the selection of Southern Methodist University to host the Bush Presidential Center.
Starlight Halloween carnival gives kids, parents a break from medical treatments
Watching brothers Zion, 6, and Urion, 8, race about gathering Halloween treats, it's hard to imagine they suffer from a major illness.
SMU student body president leads alcohol program
A new alcohol prevention and training program is designed to give Southern Methodist University students a larger stake in the school's efforts to change its campus culture.
Racism in Mississippi: an outside view
From the outside looking in, Mississippi appears to be evolving more slowly than other states in the area of race relations.
Why do execs share privileged info?
Senior executives aren't supposed to blab about their companies' innermost secrets to outsiders - but sometimes they do.
Sentencing Underway for Paroled Murder, Drug Dealer In SMU Coed's Death
Construction workers found Meaghan Bosch's body on May 14, 2007 inside of a portable toilet in Hewitt.
5th Court of Appeals Chief Justice Linda Thomas set to move on after 30 years as a judge
When 30-year-old Linda Thomas took the bench Jan. 1, 1979, she was touted as the youngest judge in Dallas.
Paroled murderer and drug dealer McDaniel to be sentenced today in death of SMU student Bosch
The paroled murderer and drug dealer who was found responsible this past summer for the 2007 overdose death of Southern Methodist University student Meaghan Bosch will be sentenced by a federal judge this morning.
Snail fossils suggest semiarid eastern Canary Islands were wetter 50,000 years ago
Fossil land snail shells found in ancient soils on the subtropical eastern Canary Islands show that the Spanish archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa has become progressively drier over the past 50,000 years.
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