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...Behind the scenes, Graham took an active interest in making the Washington Post a more diverse workplace, hiring more black and female reporters. When she handed over the reins of the Post to son Donald in 1979, she had transformed it from a traditional broadsheet flirting with dinosaur status into a vibrant, modern newspaper with a national readership...
...longest-running kids' TV character, goes off the air in Chicago, the last city where he still takes pratfalls. With its relentlessly slapsticky approach to entertaining kids, and competition from edgier children's fare on channels like Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network, "this type of programming is a dinosaur," says Joey D'Auria, a former stand-up comic who has played Bozo on Chicago's WGN since 1984. The station's general manager, John Vitanovec, calls cancellation of the low-rated show "strictly a strategic decision...
Digging for archaeological paydirt in what is now the Sahara Desert, scientists have unearthed the fossilized bones of the second-largest dinosaur ever to walk the earth. Dubbed Paralititan stromeri (the first name means "tidal giant"; the second refers to Ernst Stromer, a geologist who found dinosaur fossils in the area in the 1930s and took them to Germany, only to have them destroyed by Allied bombing in WWII) this long-necked, plodding sauropod munched on lush ferns and trees in an area that 90 million years ago was, according to discoverer Joshua B. Smith "dinosaur heaven...
...Smith, a scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, says this particular skeleton was probably torn apart by sharp-toothed predators as it lay on the beach of a warm tropical sea. He found only a few bones, but they were enough to calculate the dinosaur's gargantuan size at 80 to 100 feet long and weighing 60-70 tons. The find solves another mystery: what those previously discovered predators - three different kinds, each (at 50 feet) bigger than Tyrannosaurus Rex - were dining on during their prehistoric stay on the old North African coast. Said Smith: "Now we've found...
...Dinosaur squad (1-0, 0-0 AARP), though, came up big when it needed to most. Despite being shutout for the entire game by Crimson pitcher Dan Fernandez (1-1, 10.23 ERA), the senior bats came alive in the top of the seventh and final inning...