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...museum. A dinosaur skeleton occupies a central position throughout the movie, lending an eerie atmosphere of impending doom to the events Gavras films through its bare ribs. Especially compelling are the images of television screens broadcasting garishly amid the flotsam and jetsam of American history, which consist primarily of extinct or endangered animals and routed indigenous peoples...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Mad City' Plays Up Media Paranoia | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...single-digit a.m. study breaks with double cheeseburgers and greasy french fires may not yet be extinct in Harvard Square...

Author: By Jennifer . Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Tasty Closes, But May Move | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...walls of his office, pictures of plaster figures of dinosaurs found in Mongolia, a reproduction portrait of a Manchu by a Jesuit and a scroll written in Jurchen calligraphy, an extinct language from northern China. Then there are his bookshelves, where books about everything from Dharma art to Bronze Age transportation are written in languages including French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Di Cosmo Finds His Niche Delving Into Inner Asia | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

Fossils unearthed in Emery County, Utah, are the first for terrestrial animals and plants from a historical gap that began 145 million years ago and continued until just a few millions years before the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, Cifelli said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fossils Hint at Dinosaur's Demise | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

However, these species appear to become extinct every few thousand years. But entirely new asexual species then appear, Meselson says...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Kass, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meselson Fights Biological Warfare, Studies Reproduction | 10/7/1997 | See Source »

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