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...embryos lay to rest suspicions voiced by paleontological gadfly Robert Bakker that sauropods gave birth to live young--though the grinding wear patterns on the embryonic teeth hint that the little dinos probably did break out of their shells voraciously hungry. Under a microscope, the postage stamp-size patches of fossilized embryonic skin--the first ever found--turned out to have scales arrayed in distinctive patterns (rosettes, parallel rows) similar to the arrangement of the small bony plates on the backs of titanosaurs. This could mean, says Chiappe, that like modern crocodiles, the young sauropods grew body armor as they...
...curious way we're more likely to forgive cool guys than squares. At least they never promised to toe the line. That's why we're so harsh with ministers who fall from grace, like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart. Mark Twain once said that a man, if he's any good, never gets over being a boy. We like men in whom we can see the vestiges of the boy. You can still make out the flirtatious teenage horn player in Bill Clinton. Newt Gingrich--who last week deemed Clinton an "illegal man"--despite his love of dinosaurs, probably...
Disgraced televangelist JIM BAKKER, he of the PTL ministry, has teared up on TV plenty of times, so an interview with BARBARA WALTERS was probably no big deal. Bakker, who's on parole after serving five years of an eight-year fraud conviction (chief duty: cleaning halls and toilets), says he now realizes it was wrong for a man of God to be paid such a high salary. He learned this, he says, from the Bible, a book he was apparently not so familiar with before his prison stint. He also tells Walters that a fellow inmate tried to rape...
...flamboyant personal-injury and defense attorney dubbed the King of Torts; in San Francisco. Belli pioneered the use of "demonstrative evidence" (unveiling an artificial limb, baring a client's disfigurement) to win over juries, and took on a variety of mass-disaster cases, as well as representing televangelist Jim Bakker and Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...nails others. If the book lacks larger consideration of Nightline's place in the TV-news universe, it does offer a fine appreciation of Koppel's interviewing technique. He has always stood apart for his unmatched ability to focus, his knack for cutting through obfuscation. With Jim and Tammy Bakker, Koppel recalls that he was "worried about going after them too hard," yet jumped in as soon as the televangelists started quoting Scripture: "Is it going to be possible to get through an interview with both of you without you wrapping yourselves in the Bible?" To Michael Dukakis, who persisted...