Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
Science · 2001
Geologist Martin Pickford may no longer have to worry about being thrown into a Nairobi jail. Last year, Pickford, a geologist at the Collège de France in Paris who studies human evolution, was arrested by Kenyan authorities and imprisoned for 5 days on charges of fossil hunting without a permit. The charges are linked to a paleontology turf war between Pickford's research group and rivals (Science, 13 April, p. 198).