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The 2008 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials are inching closer to the starting blocks. This WEB SITE offers updates and information on everything from parking to event schedules in an effort to to ensure that you and other members of the University of Oregon community come out of the gate ready for the best track and field trials ever.

Research by archaeologist Dennis Jenkins (UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History) in the online edition of Science on April 3 drew stories by newspapers, radio outlets and television stations. The news was international within 15 minutes of a media embargo. Jenkins found human "droppings" in Oregon's Paisley Caves, and leading experts on human DNA determined the, er, poop came from people living 14,300 years ago. Below is a listing, with links, of just some of the coverage:

• Baltimore Sun

• Associated Press

• Seattle Times

• Washington Post

• The Oregonian

• Register-Guard

• Reuters/Scientific American

• New York Times

• San Francisco Chronicle
• Los Angeles Times

• National Geographic

• Telegraph (UK)

• HealthDay News

• Science

• NPR 

• Canada's Globe and Mail
• Belfast Telegraph

• Baker City Herald
• Archaeology Magazine
• Register-Guard editorial
• The Daily Emerald