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...earliest dinosaurs were meat eaters, how did they evolve into herbivores -- a key to their ability to survive in a variety of environments? The arrangement of teeth and jaws was probably a major factor, and that may explain in part why dinosaurs were so successful overall. Weishampel is trying to correlate tooth design, patterns of tooth wear, the size of the mouth and other aspects of skull mechanics with the types of plants the dinosaurs might have munched. "You can get a rough feeling for how fibrous the material was that they ate, and whether they sheared, ground or pulped...
...findings may explain why fungal infections are so hard to control, since drugs that attack fungi often hurt people as well. And conscientious vegetarians may be discombobulated: Are mushrooms one more thing they...
...VATs. Clinton communications director George Stephanopoulos was disinclined to get into that sort of detail on a topic so vulnerable to bipartisan attack. Instead he chose vigorous and decisive obfuscation. "If a decision is made to go forward with something like that, it's certainly something the President will explain and justify," he said. "But no decision has been made along those lines...
That could explain some of the more obvious errors, including inaccurate descriptions of the North Vietnamese military-prison system and some badly garbled American names that do not correspond to the names of any U.S. MIAs. Indeed, a covering letter on the document indicates that Quang, who at the time was commander of the 4th Military Region in central South Vietnam, was reporting to his superiors on the success of his mission. He emphasized his plans for Operation Ba Bo, a program of "extermination" of South Vietnamese officials. In this context, Pentagon and congressional experts say, Quang may have engaged...
Unfortunately, the very fact that Phillips must turn to elite behavior in order to explain mass actions disrupts his clean connection between economics and politics. If hard times explained political protest, elections would not be subject to the whims of campaigning and electioneering...