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...unfailing ear for dialogue (getting a hard-to-solve case is "catching a stone whodunit"), and he's abetted by the subtle performances of regulars like Sonja Sohn and Wendell Pierce. Even crooked union boss Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer) is more pitiable than loathsome--he's a dinosaur and knows it--and his underlings are the blue-collar counterpart to last season's no-hope drug soldiers, who are on the scene this year too. If The Wire depicts a war on crime, it is World War I, its weary sides facing off in the trenches, with little hope...
...attraction. A growing number of outfitters supply amenities that range from adequate to near opulent for adventures like hiking and fly-fishing in the Altai Mountains, traversing the moonscape of the Gobi Desert by Range Rover and exploring the Flaming Cliffs, one of the world's premier dinosaur-fossil sites, in the company of a paleontologist...
...country since 1996 with Nomadic Expeditions, an outfitter based in New Jersey. Miniaci has faced flash floods, watched craggy roads flip trucks like so many toys and once waited for three days in a remote desert settlement because a fuel shortage kept helicopters grounded in the capital. Dinosaur digs were his original lure to Mongolia, but now he gives significant time and money to support adult and child education, and to aid orphans, in what is still an impoverished country...
...explorer and photojournalist for National Geographic whose expeditions, which often involved disappearing for months at a time, produced numerous gems of reportage; in Arlington, Va. Marden arrived at the magazine in 1934 at 21, and over the next 64 years he retraced the transatlantic route of Christopher Columbus, unearthed dinosaur eggs in Madagascar, discovered the wreck of the H.M.S. Bounty in the South Pacific and helped pioneer the use of underwater photography...
Fossils of a four-winged species of dinosaur discovered in northeastern China have provided surprising new evidence on the evolution of birds, a group of Chinese paleontologists reported in the journal Nature this month. The dinosaur, given the name Microraptor gui, appears to have used its feathers to glide from tree to tree, much like a flying squirrel. Its gliding motion supports the theory that birds, which are believed to have evolved from dinosaurs, took their first flight from the trees down, not from the ground up, as a competing theory maintains. Microraptor gui was relatively small--about...