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Developmentally cascading structures do not lose evolutionary potential, but compound developmental instability in rat molars
Abstract Increasing variability down serially segmented structures, such as mammalian molar teeth and vertebrate limb segments, is a much-replicated pattern. The same phenotypic pattern has conflicting interpretations at different evolutionary scales. Macroevolutionary patterns are thought to reflect greater evolutionary potential in later-forming segments, but microevolutionary patterns are thought to reflect less evolutionary potential and greater phenotypic plasticity.
Reduced Dietary Protein Induces Changes in the Dental Proteome
Abstract Experimental studies have demonstrated that nutritional changes during development can result in phenotypic changes to mammalian cheek teeth. This developmental plasticity of tooth morphology is an example of phenotypic plasticity. Because tooth development occurs through complex interactions between manifold processes, there are many potential mechanisms which can contribute to a norm of reaction.
Letter to the Editor: Voting at Cedar Creek Lake
To the Editor: Help us save our Voting Rights at Cedar Creek Cove! Make every vote count! Voting is not the right you are born with and it can be easily taken by inaction. What starts with one neighborhood can turn into an epidemic. Cedar Creek Cove Owners Association is attempting to change our Voting Rights. Please help us act now by looking into our petition. Help us spread the word. For more information go to Change.com and search Cedar Creek Cove.
Richard Louv and the Reader
Louv wrote feature stories for the Reader in the 1970s before becoming a regular writer for the San Diego Union. Editor's picks of stories Louv wrote for the Reader:.
Amy Chu and the Reader
Amy Chu served as calendar editor and wrote feature stories for the Reader in the late 1970s and early 1980s. How they restore great paintings in Balboa Park A recent Tuesday morning in Balboa Park had brought a wooden angel weakened by insect tunneling, a fragmented jade sculpture, and a portrait of the owner’s grandmother that was mildewed and improperly framed.
Rick Geist and the Reader
Geist wrote for the Reader in the late 1980s and returned to write a feature story in 2016. Editor's picks of stories Geist wrote for the Reader: The San Diego-San Ysidro trolley, late at night On the San Diego Trolley, the decision to buy a ticket or not is up to you. It's called the honor system. When I first heard about the trolley in 1981, the implications of honor and trust delighted me, spoke of softer, more innocent times, of study halls and homework and cookies.
Bob McPhail and the Reader
Bob McPhail came to the Reader from the Oceanside Blade-Tribune in 1987 and has written stories for the Reader through 2018. McPhail's favorite stories he has written for the Reader: Camp Pendleton Marine kills older gay man — what else is new? Very early one morning in April of 1983, David G. Smith met his death in a downtown Oceanside motel room. It was an ugly, painful, panic-stricken departure from this life.
Gordon Smith and the Reader
Gordon Smith wrote feature stories for the Reader from 1978 through 1987. Editor's picks of Smith's Reader stories: Inside the Padres' lockers Tony Gwynn sat in a canvas-backed chair and peered into the wooden cubicle in front of him. “What’s in my locker?” he asked, repeating the question that had been posed to him.“Well, here’s a rubber stamp that says “Tony Gwynn’ on it. I’ve never used it.
Joe Applegate and the Reader
Joe Applegate wrote for the Reader from 1976 through 1990. Editor's pick of stories Applegate wrote for the Reader: When Richard Henry Dana returned to Point Loma On the 22nd of August, 1859, the little steamer Senator called at San Diego with passengers from Los Angeles. It rounded the point under the lighthouse and entered the harbor’s narrow channel at about 8:00 (November 21, 1990) The small airports of North San Diego County Harry Aberle died in the Pitts Special.
Dental variation in a collection of Lemmiscus curtatus from the northern plains of southern Saskatchewan: implications for morphological evolution
We provide the first documentation of morphological variation in the lower first molar (m1) of Lemmiscus curtatus from southern Canada. A total of 370 specimens were obtained from owl pellets taken from 4 localities in southern Saskatchewan.
Bill Salisbury and the Reader
Bill Salisbury an ex-SEAL, wrote for the Reader from 1990 to 2000. Editor's picks of Salisbury stories: Bull Frog Ed Bowen takes command of Navy BUDS on heels of 1999 disaster If you like your Navy SEALs or frogmen big, brawny, stoked to the eyeballs on steroids, and filled with comic-book bravado, then Captain Ed Bowen will disappoint. His size inspires nicknames like “Peanut” or “Li’l Bit” in our shared home state of Georgia. (Dec. 14, 2000) Ken Butcher. "I hear his voice sometimes.
David Steinman and the Reader
David Steinman wrote for the Reader from 1982 through 1986. Stories Steinman wrote: San Diego's explosives man “I’ve done Highway 94 when boulders roll out on the road and tie up traffic. I’m the one who blows them up so they can be pushed off the highway. Those jobs are great. Everybody wants the road clear, everybody is on your side. I’ve done the aqueduct by Fallbrook. I helped blast the dam for Lake Poway. By my home in El Cajon I blasted pads for the Fieldstone development on Rattlesnake Mountain.
Stephen Meyer and the Reader
Stephen Meyer wrote for the Reader from 1984 through 1987. Editor's picks of stories Meyer wrote: James Gibson saw the police before they saw him, and his walk turned out to be a run — straight south from Imperial Beach to Mexico. You can run but you cannot hide (at least not in Tijuana) When two Mexican police officers and two FBI agents showed up at his beachfront Playas de Tijuana apartment on October 17, James Gibson had reason to suspect that his attempt to start a new life.
Mark Orwoll and the Reader
Mark Orwoll, international editor for Travel+Leisure magazine, wrote for the Reader in the 1970s and 1980s. Editor's picks of stories Orwoll wrote for the Reader: “Raoul was doing the Master Builder in the lead role.
Mary Lang and the Reader
Lang wrote feature stories from the late 1980s through the late 1990s, including a social column called On the Town by Liz Lang. Editor's picks from stories Lang wrote for the Reader San Diego prostitutes after the Stingaree shut down When Guthrie joined the police force back in ’29, his superiors explained to him that sex was “nice and necessary” but needed to be kept quiet. If it’s illegal, he reasons, you can hold the threat of jail over sex workers’ heads to keep them in line.
Ray Westberg and the Reader
Westberg, a Vietnam veteran and a high school wrestling coach from Ellensburg, Washington, was recruited to write for the Reader by editor Judith Moore, who had lived in Ellensburg as a young housewife. Westberg died from a heart attack in 1997 while teaching his high school English class. Editor's picks of stories Westberg wrote for the Reader: Temple of the wounded “Another guy, this guy’s a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.
Paul Krueger and the Reader
How Krueger came to the Reader: I had just graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1975 with a bachelor's in U.S. history. I hadn’t taken any journalism classes in college but always liked to write, and in my senior year I had a brief internship with an alternative weekly in Santa Cruz similar to the Reader. In June, 1975, I came back to visit friends in San Diego (I went to SDSU for two years before transferring to UCSC).
Jeannette DeWyze and the Reader
How DeWyze came to the Reader: In the early ‘70s, my best friend at Northwestern University, Randy Barnett, got a job selling ads for the fledgling Chicago Reader. I was involved in campus life (including journalism studies) so never sought to write for that Reader. But after graduation, when Randy visited San Diego in the summer of 1974, he and I stopped in at the offices of the distantly related San Diego Reader. Editor and publisher Jim Holman invited me to submit freelance cover articles.
We Are Family: South Bay's Baptist Communes
Pianist Kevin Cope knocks another tune out of the weathered Gulbransen upright piano, and again the group jumps into song unabashedly, with more hands held above heads and more upward-searching faces. But this time the song doesn’t really end. It just kind of...rolls...into this, this chant! The voices eventually hit the same monotonous note, but they aren’t chanting the same words; in fact, they don’t seem to be chanting in the same language.
Commentary: Gallant Liberals were right on tuition policy
Tuesday’s throne speech by New Brunswick's newly formed Progressive Conservative government contained an interesting line for those concerned about the affordability of post-secondary education in New Brunswick.
Commentary: New Brunswick is a model for targeted free tuition
Access to post-secondary education, and its importance to skills and jobs, has come up often in the New Brunswick election. This is no surprise: affordability in post-secondary education is a perennial concern around the world. But over the past couple of years, a remarkable new policy direction has gained traction in many countries, almost simultaneously.
Before there was Comic-con, there was Pacific Comics
In June of 1974, when Steve Schanes was twenty years old and Bill, his brother, was fifteen, they opened their first store, on Cass Street in Pacific Beach, to sell old and new comic books over the counter and through the mail. They lived with their parents, their brother, and two sisters in a ranch-style house on San Joaquin Drive, a side street on the hill that rises to Mt. Soledad, the one above La Jolla with the cross on top.
The would-be developer of Famosa Slough
Flash back a few years. We are about to witness an act of what appears to be extraordinary masochism. Terry Sheldon is standing out on West Point Loma Boulevard, looking at twenty acres of marshland. This property spells trouble. For twenty years, it has spelled trouble. Its long-suffering owner, A.J. Hall, has consistently failed to get government permission to build on it. The state legislature has specifically restricted development here. Lawsuits have been filed.
All the Mayor's Men
"If Jimmy Carter had set out in 1973 not to run for president but to wage a proxy fight for control of the Anaconda Corporation, he'd have had the same people with him. Hamilton Jordan, Jody Powell, Rob Lipshutz, Charles Kirbo, and the rest — take away Jimmy Carter, and his lieutenants were men without political direction. They all seemed more than decent people, stunningly good at their campaign assignments, yet not quite public men.
These people tell you about San Diego
Most of the main drinking establishments in town have declared themselves off-limits to Zub over the years since he left the Navy. McP’s Irish Pub booted him, and the bouncer broke Zub’s collarbone several years ago, after he got into a fight. He awoke the next morning and proceeded to get a 502 on his bicycle.
Saving the Balboa Theater - an uphill battle
THIS IS A STORY ABOUT THE collision of dreams in the arena of redevelopment politics. One dream was that of Danah Fayman, a wealthy and influential arts patron with powerful political allies. She wanted to convert San Diego's landmark Balboa Theater into an art museum, thereby ensuring employment for her talented friend, Sebastian “Lefty” Adler.
How to judge a shoddy tract home in San Diego
"I used to look at myself as the worker," he told me over coffee at a truck stop off Interstate 8 in La Mesa. “I was proud of being in the construction trades. When I was just starting out with my dad, the builder was the chubby little guy with the baseball cap that would come out with a six-pack of beer on payday. And he’d pay you and sit around and chat. And the homeowner would come out and say, ‘You guys are doing a great job!’ And each house was a little different.
San Diego's political animals
“Willie Brown is my number-one customer in politics, but I’m a Republican through and through. I’m also a businessman with 45 families to feed, and I think that anyone has a right to buy my services.
Camp Barrett parolees comb Mt. Palomar for hunter
For an hour and a half, 80-year-old Tony Carrasco had been waiting for a deer to pass within range of his old bolt-action Remington, but now he was getting bored. It was a splendid morning in late October, the sun coming full and strong out of a blank sky. His hunting stand was an outcropping of stone in Dyche Valley, on the remote eastern slope of Palomar Mountain. Near him was a dry creek bed and beyond it, dense cover where he had glimpsed a buck.
Why Africans must be recognised as partners in fight against global poverty
On the eve of Sport Relief 2018, Liz Warner – the head of the TV fundraiser – announced a new approach to its on-location films. The decision followed accusations of “poverty tourism” and “poverty porn” which were made by a charity watchdog against three films produced for Comic Relief and the Disasters Emergencies Committee in 2017.
Why Africans must be partners in the fight against global poverty
On the eve of Sport Relief 2018, Liz Warner – the head of the TV fundraiser – announced a new approach to its on-location films. The decision followed accusations of “poverty tourism” and “poverty porn” which were made by a charity watchdog against three films produced for Comic Relief and the Disasters Emergencies Committee in 2017.
San Diego Reader
My name is Clinton G. Brame. I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on November 14, 1942, at the Federal Building on Market and 12th Street, San Diego. From there I was dispatched to MCRD. The training program in boot camp, because of the war, was reduced from 12 weeks; but boot camp was the same for any young fella from any time — it sticks in your memory; you hate your DI, you’re going to kill him, until you get out, when all of a sudden everybody wants to buy him a present.
Bail Out! Pappy and the Hump Pilots
After almost 47 years and a few years of nagging by another old “Hump” pilot by the name of Art Wollgast, I will write the story down. The First Hump Walk Out to the India Side. I have my official Army Air Corps form, which is the personal flying record of each pilot. I also still have a battered, blurry, spiral pocket notebook, 3"x 5”, that I carried around to write down radio frequencies and other stuff that might help keep me alive. I will refer to it also.
Die Free! Escape of a Bataan Battler
I was 19 when World War II broke out. I turned 20 going into Bataan on my birthday, the 12th of December 1941. I was in the antitank company, 31st Infantry, the only American infantry unit in the Philippines. We had between 1800 and 1900 men in the unit when the war started. The whole 31st regiment was called “Manila's Own." and it was formed there in 1916. They'd seen duty in China and Siberia. They were America’s Foreign Legion. They never served in the United States until long after World War II.
Coast to cactus: The genesis of San Diego's definitive hiking guide
Since Afoot and Afield in San Diego County first appeared in 1986, Jerry Schad’s comprehensive guide to local hiking trails has been considered the definitive resource. But Schad’s death from liver cancer in 2011 sent the venerable hiking guide into limbo. Although a fifth edition prepared by local hiking enthusiast Scott Turner finally is scheduled for publication in February, it now faces serious competition.
San Diego Reader
San Diego has played its own role. Great weather, ample facilities, and the region’s heavily middle-class economy depolarize tennis, blunting country club snobbery, and turning tennis instead into just another California outdoor activity. San Diego created a wonderful environment for local competition. “Morley Field, that was it, baby, the place,” says Billie Jean King. Amid so many players and such fine facilities, it was easy to improve and enjoy the game without ever journeying too far.
San Diego immigrants
“Part of the procedure before praying is washing their feet in the sinks. That was another problem. This was going on in the restrooms, creating water on the floor. It was not received well by other students of other nationalities. They didn’t like that going on. We asked them if they could possibly wash their feet at home instead. We finally had to give out letters from the school, translated into Somali.” Graffiti starts appearing on garage and apartment walls.
SD Neighborhoods: Coastal
"At first it was sporadic," she said. "It was, like, for two years, the same group of people, and it bothered us, but it was every once in a while. Then, this past summer, it went on every single weekend, starting at 2:30, after the bars closed, and they'd get, like, 20 people out on their deck, hootin' and hollerin' and playing music until 5:30. They weren't very approachable, and they obviously didn't care about the people around them.” Like time.
WINNERS-LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2016
The faceless portraits of individuals in the streets of San Jose, Costa Rica reveal an intriguing amount of information and clues about each of these people. We can imagine their lives in many general ways by looking at the clothes they wear, their postures, what they carry, and how they present themselves to us against the backdrop of anonymous urban walls.
Landmarks you thought you knew
Maybe it’s premature to call someone an astronomer while they’re still in graduate school, but it would probably be okay in Ben Oppenheimer’s case because he and another graduate student had discovered the first brown dwarf. On his second night of observing at Palomar, Oppenheimer and Dave Galinowski, a grad student from Johns Hopkins, photographed Gliese 229B, a brown dwarf in companionship with the star Gliese 229A. The discovery made the front page of the New York Times.
San Diego characters: common but colorful
I’d tell Mollie where I was gonna camp, and she’d pack the ol’ mule and drag him around till I got to that camp, and she’d have it all set up. The camps were at different springs where you knew the water was good and there was a little bit o’ feed for your horse. We'd sleep there under just a few blankets and quilts. It was really some beautiful country, and Mollie liked it. He’s not the only older person in the neighborhood who lives alone, and they all get together from time to time.
San Diego neighborhoods: Borrego
There is a small library in town, but not a single stoplight. Parking is free. There is no hospital in Borrego, which, I’m told, militates against larger development. A U.S. post office was established in 1926, only after drinking water was found. Earthquake insurance, which is hard to get, not being a moneymaker for insurance companies, is very expensive, I was told, and carries a high deductible. There is only one black person in town and one Asian. Steve decided to trail back and look for him.
The desert beyond Borrego
It's the newer Old Highway 80, built in 1932, that Miller's fronts. A visit to the site reveals two things: the buildings are in better shape than they appear to be from the interstate, but the mess of rusted car parts, broken timbers, old refrigerators, and twisted sheet metal surrounding the buildings looks even worse from close range. Yet Caldwell beams with pride as he walks up to the rock house that once served as a roadside diner.
Near desert places
He smeared my whole body and face with mineral oil and began rubbing it around with a machine that whined and felt warm. A cord led from his hand over to one of the big black machines. An indicator needle jumped back and forth when he touched my body. The sign on the machine said it was an “Ultra Sonar.” I recognized this to be what some of the other guests at the hotel described as “Henry’s jackhammer.” “Let’s see, you oversee everything from the Imperial County to Tecate.
Unemployed and houseless
Reed: "I have no plans for Thanksgiving. Just be with good friends, like my family here and with Sister Winnie and St. Vincent's and the Salvation Army." Kakei: "Sister Winnie is over at 16th and Island. She's very good. Horizon is the best one for Thanksgiving. You get showers, you get clothes, You also get an eye test and a glaucoma check. They have doctors — they have everything. It's in Clairemont." The Mission Valley Preserve is one of the most beautiful areas in San Diego.
Abortion as a moral conflict
We absolutely didn’t have a clue about what we were doing, but each one of us were self-motivated. It was like if you want it done, you do it yourself. That’s kind of the way we thought, except none of us wanted to plant the bomb. No one wanted to do that. We’d ask, “Who’s going to do it?” and everyone would say, “No, I don’t want to do it; you do it — I’ll blow myself up.” We went to her parents’ home that afternoon. They were still unaware of the pregnancy.
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