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...possible? Absolutely, say paleontologists. After all, aside from a few fossilized scraps, nobody has ever seen a dinosaur's skin. And modern lizards and birds, both relatives of the dinosaurs, are often brightly colored. Some scientists--most notably Robert Bakker, an iconoclastic paleontologist who served as an informal adviser on the movie version of Jurassic Park--have even suggested that dinosaurs could have sported feathers. Which is precisely what Crichton's baby tyrannosaurs...
...experience of talking to some professorsmakes you wonder if it's worth it; ProfessorStephen J. Gould, he of the dinosaur-sized ego,conducts office hours in groups of 12, withstudents sitting in a circle and occasionallydaring to interrupt his soliloquys with aquestion. It's a group-worship session, withyou-know...
...exciting as Jurassic Park," ventures Cano -- and maybe then some. For the stunt pulled off by scientists in Michael Crichton's novel and Steven Spielberg's movie -- retrieving strands of dinosaur DNA from amber, then using it to recreate monsters from the past -- belongs to the realm of fiction. By contrast, the article in which Cano and Borucki describe their achievement appeared last week in the pages of the journal Science. And while the Jurassic Park scientists cloned DNA to re-create approximations of dinosaurs and used frog DNA to fill in the genetic code, Cano's team claims...
...attempt to highlight the need for daycare, health care and more flexible working hours, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) held a rally outside of Holyoke Center yesterday with bouquets of balloons, hand-lettered signs and a man in a purple dinosaur costume...
...plan was just like a small diary where I put random stuff about what I was doing, arguments I had with chemistry, and other silly things like that. After that, I was introduced to the art of ASCII, so I started incorporating...such things as Star Trek ships, a dinosaur, a panda, a biohazards sing, and other eclectic items. I received several messages from people complaining... that [my .plan] tied up their computer for twenty minutes and that I made their lives hell...