THE NEWSLETTER OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION [FALL 2006]
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[PAGE 11] Inside 3 Embryology Alumnus Andrew Z. Fire Shares Nobel Prize 4 Tipping the Mass Scales at the Edge of the Visible Universe 6 Small-scale Logging Blazes the Trail for Deforestation 7 Sugar Metabolism Tracked in Living Plant Tissues in Real Time 9 Minerals Go “Dark” Near Earth’s Core 10 More Awards: Two Other Carnegie Luminaries Honored 12 Mice Aid the Study of Human Eye Cancer 13 Carnegie’s George West Wetherill, Father of Earth-Formation Models, Dies at 80 14 Why Waves Go Wacky at Earth’s Center 14 Three New “Trojan” Asteroids Found Sharing Neptune’s Orbit 16 In Brief 20 David Greenewalt Building Dedicated at Broad Branch Road