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Role player, role model Bulls' Ruffin becomes a strong father figure
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Four-year-old Deionte doesn't know the man he's calling "Daddy"
isn't legally his father yet.
But Michael Ruffin doesn't mind. The second-year Bulls center and
his wife, Mistye, aren't waiting for an official declaration to
provide Deionte with a father figure and stable home environment.
While some NBA players fill headlines with paternity suits,
domestic abuse and generally reckless parenting, the Ruffins provide
a wrinkle in the stereotype.
Instead of shying away from responsibility, the 23-year-olds are
pursuing their most important challenge with maturity beyond their
years.
"To me, it's ...
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Mass extinctions and macroevolution
Magazine article from: Paleobiology
; ...between later background extinction and the major mass extinctions. In any case, the...the intervals of lower extinction intensity between the "Big Five" extinction peaks of the Phanerozoic). Mass extinctions would thus represent...
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Extinction-induced variability in human behavior.(Report)
Magazine article from: The Psychological Record
; ...be changed by reinforcement and be a product of extinction. Under extinction, responses that led to reinforcers in the past...on the reinforcement of variability, but while extinction-induced variability appears essential for the...
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Spacing extinction trials alleviates renewal and spontaneous recovery
Magazine article from: Learning & Behavior
; Studies of extinction in classical conditioning situations...varying the intertrial interval during an extinction treatment in a fear-conditioning...at test (i.e., more effective extinction) when extinction trials were widely...
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EXTINCTION sunday briefing sunday briefing While the disappearance of species such as tigers and mountain gorillas grabs the headlines and fills TV schedules, less well-known is the fact that we appear to be living through an extinction event bigger than that which wiped out the dinosaurs. This assault on biodiversity is seen by many scientists as a greater threat to mankind than climate change.
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...YEARS AGO A series of mass extinctions eliminated many brachiopods...pictured below). These extinctions could have been caused by...444 MILLION YEARS AGO Two extinction events occurred, which together...largest of the five major extinctions in history in terms of the...
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Extinction and quiescence in marine animal genera
Magazine article from: Paleobiology
; ...proxies for true extinctions, then there is appreciable global extinction in every stage...backsmearing of extinctions by incomplete...to which mass extinctions represent something...aggravated background extinction (Jablonski 1986...
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Evidence for extinction selectivity throughout the marine invertebrate fossil record
Magazine article from: Paleobiology
; ...this nonrandom extinction is selective clustering of extinctions in genera consisting...species which possess extinction-biasing traits...debated whether mass extinctions form a distinct...background" extinction (Bambach et al...
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Extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass wipeouts.
News Wire article from: Asian News International
; ...has found that extinction rates higher in...settings during mass extinctions. The research...found that, while extinction rates in the two...times between mass extinctions, there was a strikingly...rates during mass extinctions were significantly...susceptible to the ...
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Extinction cascades and catastrophe in ancient food webs
Magazine article from: Paleobiology
; ...catastrophic secondary extinction increases as food...of the secondary extinctions. When intraguild...understanding secondary extinctions in fossil communities...during times of mass extinction, within the context...results in the extinction of consumers...such secondary extinctions ...
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Extinction runs in the family.(Report)
Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science
; ...restricted to extinctions driven by us...feature of the extinction process itself...represent most extinctions in the history of life, and mass extinctions tend to be clumped...during the mass extinction at the end of...
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Extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass wipeouts
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...has found that extinction rates higher in...settings during mass extinctions. The research...found that, while extinction rates in the two...times between mass extinctions, there was a strikingly...rates during mass extinctions were significantly...susceptible to the ...
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