Word: dinomania
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That Dorfman was convinced the story was valid and not just a product of recurrent dinomania or the buzz surrounding the upcoming release of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park came as a relief to her colleagues. In her capacity as TIME's head science researcher, she has sent many an overhyped nonstory to extinction. "Andrea serves as a kind of litmus test," says senior editor Claudia Wallis, who first suggested the time might be ripe for a reappraisal of dinosaurs. "She's constitutionally incapable of exaggeration." Adds another editor, Charles Alexander: "She has a scientist's skepticism...
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