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...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. "I was pretty...
...parents do face custody or visitation battles in court, the outcome is apt to vary from state to state -- indeed, from judge to judge or from social worker to social worker. Virginia is one of just four states where legal precedent deems gay parents unfit (Arkansas, Missouri and North Dakota are the others), and even Judge Parsons granted Sharon a weekly visit, ensuring she would remain a presence in Tyler's life. Only New Hampshire and Florida categorically bar gays as adoptive parents; in the nation's capital, by contrast, local officials held a seminar this summer to instruct gays...
...leaves Clinton where he wants to be: somewhere near the political center with a plan that incorporates some market mechanisms and a lot of government regulation, cuts in some spending programs, and new health benefits in other areas. "The Clinton health-care bill," predicts Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, "will be the only vehicle in town with real credibility...
...people here really resent having to go over there to court the guy. We didn't think it was a perfect bill, but it was the best compromise that we could get." Two hours before the final vote in the Senate, Democratic Senators Thomas Daschle of South Dakota and Harry Reid of Nevada walked into Kerrey's office. Both looked grim. When they emerged half an hour later, neither was smiling. Asked if they were confident that the President had the votes he needed to win passage of his plan, Daschle said...
...Great Flood of 1993, so far, has contributed to 43 deaths in eight states and devastated crops in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota and elsewhere; now the Midwest is bracing itself for the Great Bill. While cost estimates of cleaning up the deluge are starting to pour in like river water through a levee of sandbags, flood victims are wondering how the impressive damage estimates and aid packages relate to them and their losses. Complains Allen Seeburger, an uninsured farmer in St. Charles County, Missouri, who lost his corn and wheat harvest to the flood: "It takes...