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...landed at Plymouth in 1620, they became the first chapter in the Massachusetts story. Their descendants are farmers in the state's western meadows, computer technicians in Boston and fishermen in the seaports, and they share a reverence for history and local heroes--everyone from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Larry Bird. But the Kennedys remain the state's most potent living legacy to the nation, with three of the clan now in Congress, helping to make politics one of the state's favorite spectator sports. This year, with John Kerry and Bill Weld battling for a Senate seat, Massachusetts is host...
...learned quite a bit about pterosaurs. For example, they know that the first pterosaurs shared a common ancestor with the dinosaurs and appeared on earth at roughly the same time. The earliest pterosaurs sported long, bony tails that functioned as dynamic stabilizers. By contrast, later models looked more like birds, with their tails shrunken to stubs and their necks and heads greatly elongated. They lacked feathers, but their bodies were probably wrapped in a thick, furlike cloak. The range in size of pterosaurs was enormous. Some were as small and sprightly as robins, while others--like Quetzalcoatlus--were giants five...
Here's a short, gritty novel whose elegant construction calls to mind the way Greg Louganis used to dive and Larry Bird and Kevin McHale used to work the back-door play. "Yes!" the amazed onlooker would realize, watching these masters. "That's how it's done!" Madison Smartt Bell's Ten Indians (Pantheon; 272 pages; $23) catches child psychiatrist Mike Devlin just short of burnout, mortally sick from seeing damaged children. He is no longer surprised, for instance, to notice an eight-year-old boy who has come to him with cigarette burns on his body scissoring the crotches...
...know, that sport where some guy stands on a platform and lets go of this wooden bird that has a dart in its mouth and the bird swings down on a rope and hits a target and everyone cheers (boy that's a mouthful...
...Blue Bird buses are a great leap in quality, according to Witt, who likens it to moving "from a Chevrolet to a Cadillac...