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...legitimate to focus on more cerebral things and perhaps a bit impractical to trek off to the Science Center in a fluff of crepede-chine and sequins. But being smart means knowing a lot About a lot. And if you don't know Barneys from a purple dinosaur, you're ignoring something that matters...
...THAT'S A RADIO MONOLOGUE YOU didn't hear last week, and not only because we in the evil dinosaur liberal media made it up. We don't matter anymore. Today the big noise comes from talk radio. Its conservative hosts are the kings of AM radio and the kingmakers of the new Republican majority; one survey showed that hard-core listeners to the format voted 3-to-1 Republican. As could be expected, the hosts showed little interest in ribbing Newt Gingrich and the G.O.P. They had bigger fat to fry. Have a listen...
Never mind that some parents, given their attitude toward the big purple dinosaur, might actually call that a step forward. The race for the symbolic high ground has begun. Newt Gingrich has complained that public television is elitist and just a "sandbox for the rich," and that Joe Taxpayer should not have to pick up the tab anymore. Public-TV executives, who will argue their cause this Thursday at a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, have responded by casting themselves as champions of the common man -- and the common kid. Good grief, Newt Gingrich wants to do away with Big Bird...
...SCIENCE: Dinosaur Doomsday Revisited...
They were mean and bloodthirsty, sure, but such dinosaurs as Tyrannosaurus rex may well have had a more caring side. The clue is the discovery of a fossilized embryo from a carnivorous dinosaur: an oviraptor found in Mongolia. The embryo was lodged in a nest, which also contained bones from other tiny dinos that mother oviraptor might have eaten while watching over her sharp- toothed darlings. Apparently even prehistoric monsters knew how to parent...