Word: dino
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...however, as the city ricochets through its biggest boom since the Frank-and-Dino Rat Pack days of the '50s and '60s -- the tourist inflow has nearly doubled over the past decade, and the area remains among America's fastest growing -- the hypereclectic 24-hour-a-day fantasy-themed party machine no longer seems so very exotic or extreme. High-tech spectacle, convenience, classlessness, loose money, a Nikes-and-T-shirt dress code: that's why immigrants flock to the U.S.; that's why some 20 million Americans (and 2 million foreigners) went to Vegas in 1992. "Las Vegas exists...
...been busy this year fighting Bam-Bam and Dino...
...beef, and Washington, D.C., outlets are featuring the Mega Mac, which stacks up two quarter-pound patties with cheese, lettuce, pickles and special sauce on a sesame-seed bun, of course. Appropriately, the chain's current promotional tie-in is with the movie Jurassic Park: ads tout "Dino-Size" fries and soft drinks fit for a Tyrannosaurus...
Scientists have extracted tiny fragments of DNA from a weevil that lived at least 120 million years ago, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. Like the dino-blood-carrying insect in the new movie Jurassic Park, the weevil was trapped and preserved in tree resin that hardened into amber. The weevil will not be cloned, however...
...with a mouse between its teeth. (And if you miss the book's creepiest scene, where the T. rex curls its tongue around a child hiding inside a waterfall, it's not here because, Spielberg says, "the tongue we made just wasn't convincing. It looked like Dino from The Flintstones...