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...animals, chimerical creatures with human elements but not intellects should also be more morally acceptable. This is especially true when we consider the likely capacity of such mixed genetics to be a source of important medical benefits. Vaccines and life-saving drugs could be tested, as well as bone marrow and organs used for human transplant...
...celebrated for the exquisite fossils they've yielded up since the early 1800s--gorgeously preserved specimens of prehistoric fish and a few birds. No dinosaurs, though. While the rocks date back some 110 million years, smack in the middle of the terrible lizards' reign, not a single dinosaur bone had ever been found there. As far as amateur paleontologist Giovanni Todesco knew, that dismal record was still intact even after he unearthed a 9-in.-long specimen about a decade ago. The nearly complete skeleton, missing only its tail and the lower part of its legs, looked...
Their lives, by the evidence of their remains, were brutish and short. X rays of some 60 complete bodies show that many of the adults had arthritis and bone deformities (not surprising, considering that they performed hard labor), the parasitic disease schistosomiasis (most likely picked up while standing in irrigation ditches), stunted growth (suggesting malnutrition or illness) and tuberculosis. Adults died at 38, on average; few reached 50; and the presence of many children and young mothers implies a high rate of infant mortality and death in childbirth...
Harvard, however, will have to go without defending Ivy League Player of the Year Brian Ralph. The senior centerfielder, who led the team with a .390 batting average last season and never ceases to amaze with his glove, is nursing a broken bone in his hand and will not play this weekend...
DIED. LEONIE RYSANEK, 71, show-stopping Austrian soprano whose soaring arias so entranced fans she once kept them standing--and clapping--throughout the entire intermission of a Wagner opera; of bone cancer; in Vienna...