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...course, many believe the average citizen should be disarmed to reduce crimes of passion or accidental deaths. But crimes of passion, passion being what it is, are typically committed with whatever weapon is at hand, whether gun, kitchen knife, or claw hammer. In addition, the number of children under age 14 killed in firearms accidents has steadily decreased since the 1930s, while the number of guns in America has more than doubled during that same period...
...creatures, to life. That is the responsibility of the swamis of special effects -- the puppeteers, modelmakers and computer mavens -- working closely with enthusiastic experts. Phil Tippett, an animator and longtime dinosaur buff, would whisper admonitions after nearly every take: "The head would never move like that," or "The claw wouldn't extend that far." He was the chief enforcer of Spielberg's dictum: that the dinosaurs be animals, not monsters...
Surprises crop up constantly. The latest: a new species from Mongolia, announced last week by Norell and several U.S. and Mongolian scientists. Known as Mononychus (meaning one claw), the turkey-size animal looked like a modern, flightless bird, complete with feathers, but had bone structures characteristic of both birds and dinosaurs. Its discovery cements the bird- dinosaur link even more firmly...
...Owen believed, for example, that Iguanodon, a grazing beast some 30 ft. in length, was built something like a hippopotamus, with a small, sharp horn on its nose. Half a century later, scientists decided the creature was shaped more like a kangaroo and the horn was really a misplaced claw that belonged on its forefoot. Now they think it was probably four-footed after...
They are the cream of the crop in the Ivy League. And usually the cream rises to the top. Harvard will have its hands full today. It will have to scratch and claw for all its points. Nothing will come easy. But then again, it's always a battle when Princeton and Harvard get together...