Word: arounders
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...explosions, invisible to the human eye, that in seconds release more energy than our own little sun will put out in its 10 billion-year lifetime. Though astronomers have studied hundreds of gamma bursts, they have never determined what they are. Soon that may change. Last week astrophysicists from around the world gathered in Huntsville, Ala., to discuss the gamma-ray phenomenon and plan for the launch of a satellite that will turn the sharpest eye ever on the puzzling blasts...
Paleontologists know plenty about the demise of the dinosaurs, not just how it happened--most likely in the aftermath of a cataclysmic comet or an asteroid impact 65 million years ago--but also the variety of species that were around at the time. But there is very little evidence about the other end of the age of dinosaurs. No one knows precisely when the "terrible lizards" arose or what the earliest dinosaurs were like...
...shroud is starting to come off that mystery, thanks to a discovery reported last week in the journal Science. Digging in Madagascar, an international team headed by John Flynn of Chicago's Field Museum has unearthed the fossil jaws of two dinosaurs that appear to be around 230 million years old. "These are either the earliest or among the earliest dinosaurs known," comments University of Pennsylvania paleontologist Neil Shubin. The scientists also found fossils of eight other primitive animals, some of which are a key to the evolution of mammals, which arose at about the same time as the dinosaurs...
...time filming started, Crowe was Wigand, with folds of fat around his face. He even waddled like Wigand. Marie Brenner, the Vanity Fair writer whose article inspired The Insider, was astonished to see Wigand on the set one day. It was Crowe, of course. "I saw Wigand for two months in 1996, when he was shattered, frightened, in his darkest time," she recalls. "Yet this actor, after a day of golf, was able to intuit his throttled energy, his tension." Hollywood is equally impressed by the actor. Ridley Scott cast Crowe as the lead in next spring's Gladiator...