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...hotel may soon have more guests than it can handle. With international trade restrictions on textiles set to expire Dec. 31, China's clothing factories, among the most modern and efficient in the world, are gearing up to take a dragon's share of the global business. "We are expanding in China quickly and I think the economic reality will prevail over all the political obstacles," says Luen Thai's CEO Henry...
...Hodgson ’05 is wonderfully frenetic as the aptly-named Dopey, who delivers a sparkling and drug-crazed monologue, and Josh C. Phillips ’07’s burnt out heroin-addict Fick is both hilarious and sad. Scottie Thompson’s Ann, a dragon-lady salt-of-the earth working girl, is also excellent: when the second act opens to Ann smoking a cigarette in quiet café, her back to a bear yellow wall, her bearing is that of a woman in a (racey) Hopper painting. More surreally, there is also a chorus...
...addition, it's a new species, which Norell and co-discoverer Xing Xu of Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology named Mei long, from the Chinese for "soundly sleeping dragon." But the specimen, dating to between 128 million and 139 million years ago, is clearly an early troodontid, an evolutionary cousin of tyrannosaurs...
...only are troodontids very closely related to birds," says Norell, "but this particular one is in a stereotypical resting pose of birds." The sleeping dragon was found sitting on its hindlimbs, its forelimbs folded at its side, its head tucked under its left elbow and its long tail curled around its body. Experts believe modern birds sleep in a similar position to conserve heat; presumably Mei long did too, which suggests that the animal was warm-blooded. If that was the case, says Norell, it also offers an explanation for feathers: "It's likely they first evolved for insulation rather...
...take imprints of soft tissues and delicate structures, so there's no way of knowing whether Mei long had feathers. But other strata of the Liaoning fossil beds are much finer grained. That's where paleontologists found the feathered tyrannosaur, which Xu and Norell named Dilong paradoxus ("surprising emperor dragon"). It's one of the oldest known tyrannosaurs, and one of the emu-size specimens has unmistakable traces of primitive feathers on its tail and jaw. Those filaments, which are about three-quarters of an inch long and branched like modern feathers, are the first direct evidence that tyrannosaurs sported...