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Imagine the Buffalo Bills and the Dallas Cowboys playing to a Super Bowl tie, with both teams sharing the Vince Lombardi trophy...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Rematch of Co-Champs: Brown Tops Yale, 2-0 | 9/29/1993 | See Source »

Would the Chicago Bulls expect much from themselves if they played without Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan? Could the Dallas Cowboys stomp the Buffalo Bills if Emmit Smith and Troy Aikman were watching from the sidelines...

Author: By Derek M. Glanz, | Title: W. Harriers Sidelined | 9/28/1993 | See Source »

...dinosaur fossils are found by a jet-setting paleontologist with a millionaire benefactor and a glamorous female assistant. In real life the relics are more often discovered by the likes of Stan Sacrison, 37, a plumber and electrician who likes to wander around sheep ranches near his home in Buffalo, South Dakota, looking for prehistoric bones. Last May, while scrambling up the side of a butte, he noticed an unusually large pelvic bone and three sun-bleached vertebrae poking out of the siltstone. "I could tell right away it was a Tyrannosaurus rex, because they're really distinctive," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches the Plumber and the T. Rex | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...dinosaur burial ground, now a dry, undulating pasture of sage and buffalo grass just below the North Dakota border, was once a subtropical floodplain, where dinosaurs roamed amid palm trees and ferns on the edge of a dying inland sea. One day a mature male T. rex, weighing up to five tons and measuring nearly 40 feet in length, died in a silty washout. At least two albertosaurs, sharp-toothed scavengers about half T. rex's size, fed on the carcass, leaving a few of their teeth behind. Within months a river overflowed its banks and swept the bones away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches the Plumber and the T. Rex | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...were forced off the corporate gravy train in the latest recession and said, 'Why live in New York or L.A.? I can have a modem and a fax and live anywhere I like.' The upscale golden eagles go to Jackson Hole or Vail, the plain mid-scale eagles to Buffalo, Wyoming, or Grand Junction, Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rockies: Sky's The Limit | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

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