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John Alexander, manager of Houlihan's in Long Beach, Calif., notes that clients collect the plastic creatures and "often hang them from their glasses or from their ears." Why so? Possibly the desperate need for new conversational gambits in singles bars. "What kind of a dinosaur is that?" sure beats "What's your sign...
...truth is more unlikely than the tales. To beguile his off-hours, a young British physician invents a new kind of detective, a "thinking machine" who reconstructs a crime from minutiae much as a paleontologist builds a dinosaur from fossilized toes. The sleuth is accompanied by a general practitioner who respectfully annotates each case. Almost overnight the pair rise from obscurity to international renown. In an attempt to get on with "serious" works about history and spiritualism, the author decides to murder his invention by dropping him from a precipice. But the detective refuses to die. By public demand...
Geologist Robert Young was exploring Wells Gulch in western Colorado last summer when he picked up what seemed to be an interesting rock. Some rock. It turned out to be part of a cache of what are probably the oldest dinosaur eggs ever discovered. Though now shattered, the 145 million-year-old eggs would have measured approximately 8 in. long and 3 1/2 in. across. Young, whose find was announced last week, has no idea what species of dinosaur produced the eggs, but they may shed new light on nesting habits of the prehistoric beasts. Most dinosaurs, like modern reptiles...
...structures. We can display the model on all sides and in different colors." In the old days he would often mark different atoms in his brass models with colored yarn -- which kept falling off. "The old methodology seems so cumbersome now, even laughable," he says. "It's like a dinosaur." Rossmann, who has also modeled other viruses, like the mengo virus, has gone on to produce the image of the site where an antiviral drug binds to the surface of a virus -- important in both understanding how existing drugs work and developing new ones...
...securities activity, is reserved by the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act for investment houses only. Says George Salem, who follows the banking industry for the Manhattan-based investment firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette: "Without loan selling and investment-banking products, the big banks will go the way of the dinosaur...