Word: dinosaurs
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...cheap fish fossils scattered on the shelves. The bulky Wang, in a muscle T-shirt, glances around before beckoning me into one of two back rooms. From a secret closet behind a mirror, he pulls out a slab of rock which contains the profile of a half bird, half dinosaur, Confuciusornis sanctus, whose discovery in 1994 helped scientists develop the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs...
...Everyone wants this bird," he says, trying to convince me the $8,500 sticker price is a steal. Wang also shows me pictures of a $1,500 dog-sized dino (uncanny resemblance to the pet dino in The Flintsones) and a $25,000 unidentified feathered dinosaur...
...must use the Jr. when discussing the 31-year chairman of NASCAR, who died June 4 at 74; it's necessary in a way that it isn't with, say, Martin Luther King, Sammy Davis or Dinosaur. This is because there was a Bill France Sr.--was there ever. Big Bill grew up poor in Washington and had less than $100 to his name when he moved his family south during the Depression, seeking work. He found it in a gas station in Daytona, Fla., a town that loved gas. Soon France was helping organize stock-car races...
...People have been buying and selling music for years without DRM, in a form you may have heard of called the compact disc. CDs have never had DRM attached. Off the record, most executives--on the technology side at least--will tell you that DRM is a dinosaur that's waiting for the asteroid to hit. It's just a matter of when the music industry will stop assuming its customers are all criminals...
...Dinosaur Hunter...