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Greening of a seminary Equipment drills one of 25 wells in a geothermal well-field that will provide heat-
ing and air conditioning for the chapel at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (Pa.). Drilled 400 feet into shale, the wells will allow a heat exchanger to take advantage of the earth’s constant 50-degree temperature to heat, cool and control the humidity of the 69-year-old chapel. The project will significantly reduce the use of fossil fuels.
National Public Radio interviewed Carthage biology professor Thomas Carr Sept. 13 for a story about how the first T. Rex dinosaur skeleton found in 1902 in Hell Creek, Mont., was completed, decades after its discovery. Carr, a vertebrate pale- ontologist and noted expert on tyrannosaurid dinosaurs, teaches paleontology at the Kenosha, Wis., college and takes students on annual dinosaur bone-hunting expeditions to Hell Creek. This year while doing research at the New York museum that shipped the T. Rex skeleton to Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum, Carr found fragments of a miss- ing rib accidentally left behind in a cabinet. Recognizing the number on the bones (973) as belonging
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