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The skeletons of microscopic plankton that flourished billions of years ago may be causing continents to break apart, says a US scientist. Photosynthetic plankton have been around almost since the ...

Narrators of great events tend to write grand prose. But a casual tone goes over better with a lecture-hall audience. Walter A. McDougall has taught a course in modern European history at the ...