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Perhaps the most popular of these Cretaceous creations deals with eggs. It holds that small mammals appearing during the first half of the dinosaurs' reign stole and ate all the reptiles' eggs; the dinosaurs could not fight back effectively because the warm-blooded thieves were too fast and could easily dash into crevices for protection. This theory might account for the fact that so few fossilized dinosaur eggs have been found, but it does not explain how the dinosaurs were then able to coexist with mammals for so long a time--more than 100 million years...
...southern Africa. The 1974 graduate arrived in South Africa. The 1974 graduate arrived in South Africa intending to stay several months, but quickly became professionally and emotionally entangled with the region. During his four years there, Swanson hitchhiked through the South African countryside, lived in the impoverished bantustans, and ate at the tables of white Afrikaners. Before leaving, he would witness the death and imprisonment of many friends and would himself become actively involved in the resistance movement. What results is a compelling portrait of daily life under apartheid. And while Swanson is more than capable of painting with...
...disappeared down the hall. For weeks afterward, the sight of him made her tremble. She learned his schedule and looked forward to the few minutes between classes when their paths crossed. She watched when their paths crossed. She watched him in the cafeteria and remembered what he ate and what he left untouched. She memorized his clothes and fell in love with the way he rolled up his shirt sleeves. Saturday we watched him play, graduate he did not notice her in the stands....But always his gaze passed through her. Until this moment...
...example, three years again the Faster Bowl Tennis Tournament, Stanley says he listened to the one song on Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the sleep. He also ate a hot fudge sundae every night of the tournament...
Spock was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1903, the oldest of six children of a well-to-do railroad lawyer and his wife. The home was "child-centered" and loving, he says, but his mother was a "fiercely opinionated, moralistic, rather tyrannical person." Young Ben and his siblings ate separately from their parents, had to be in bed by 6:45 each evening and were even forbidden to eat certain foods, such as bananas, until they were twelve. This had the predictable result of inducing a certain amount of bananaphobia as the twelfth birthday approached. Spock concludes: "There must...