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...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...
...pure profit, he has pursued a scheme to clone dinosaurs from their preserved dna and show off the brand-new behemoths on an island preserve. He has imperiled some noted scientists, and even his two young grandchildren, by inviting them to inspect the park before it is ready. Dino disaster awaits...
...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...
...information, dinosaurs are more popular than ever -- if that's possible. In light of the new insights, museums around the world are revamping musty exhibits or installing new ones. They are rearranging the old stilted skeletons on display into new dynamic poses and adding such modern attractions as robotic dinos and interactive computer games. Dinosaur theme parks are booming, while toy stores overflow with stuffed stegosauruses, dinosaur puzzles and models, not to mention the omnipresent videosaurus Barney. And early in June, dino-mania will reach fever pitch with the premiere of Steven Spielberg's long-awaited movie version...