Word: bloodedness
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The resulting characters-Chinese gangsters, Filipina bar hostesses, Korean cabbies-may be poor and desperate, but they're never pitiful. Even the least likeable characters are rascals rather than villains, while the good guys are flawed, picaresque heroes. Being an immigrant, in Sai's world, isn't about preserving cultural...
Another team, meanwhile, recently published an analysis showing that Tyrannosaurus rex grew (and thus metabolized) at an impressively fast rate--suggesting that it might have been warm-blooded like birds. "There's now so much material [linking dinosaurs and birds] that I can't imagine anybody being able to ignore...
"Not only are troodontids very closely related to birds," says Norell, "but this particular one is in a stereotypical resting pose of birds." The sleeping dragon was found sitting on its hindlimbs, its forelimbs folded at its side, its head tucked under its left elbow and its long tail curled...
Before he began his second career as a journalist, a man who tries to describe the world as it is, Naipaul had already made a name for himself as a novelist, a man who makes things up. He was a Trinidadian of Indian ethnicity who wrote novels that were mostly...
Although some summit participants have been arrested, others are still at large and are considered very dangerous. At least two are believed to have done some of the surveillance of targets in New York City and elsewhere that authorities found out about last month. Some U.S. officials fear that the...