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This eminent dino digger was as awestruck as any Barney-balmy child when he saw modelmaker Winston's 9,000-lb. 40-ft.-long Tyrannosaurus rex model. "It was the closest I've ever been to a live dinosaur," he avers. He was standing a few feet from the resting T. rex when its head jerked up with startling speed and swung back and forth, alert and lifelike. "It came up real fast, its eyes dilated, its skin was twitching. When you see it, it doesn't take much imagination to get beyond the fantasy. I jumped about 10 feet...
...ones. They are rearranging the old stilted skeletons on display into new dynamic poses and adding such modern attractions as robotic dinos and interactive computer games. Dinosaur theme parks are booming, while toy stores overflow with stuffed stegosauruses, dinosaur puzzles and models, not to mention the omnipresent videosaurus Barney. And early in June, dino-mania will reach fever pitch with the premiere of Steven Spielberg's long-awaited movie version of the Michael Crichton thriller Jurassic Park. (See following story...
...Barney Frank '62 (D-Mass) was a teaching fellow and later head section leader in Gov I, the largest class at Harvard during the '60s, from 1963 to 1967. He called Mansfield's explanation for inflation "nonsense," and said the testing process was largely anonymous...
...they want. The creation of a new category of educational fare, moreover, may simply ghettoize such programming and turn kids off. The very notion of educational TV often seems to reflect narrow, schoolmarmish notions. Live-action shows are almost automatically preferred over cartoons, and some sweetly innocent shows, like Barney and Friends, seem to win approval largely because they shelter kids from the rude real world -- a strange notion of education indeed...
...combining Shearson with Primerica's Smith Barney, the acquisition will create a Wall Street powerhouse that poses a serious threat to industry leader Merrill Lynch. The deal will also reunite Weill with a company he patched together out of a string of troubled brokerages during the 1960s and '70s. American Express had been seeking to unload the money-losing brokerage. Wall Street hailed the merger as good for all three firms...