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...that an English fossil hunter first identified some newly discovered teeth as the detritus of extinct reptiles. (Dinosaur means "terrible lizard" in Greek.) Ever since that time, experts have been squabbling almost as furiously as did the reptiles themselves. In the 19th century, Yale's Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope of Philadelphia, the leading collectors in the U.S., feuded so bitterly over fossil sites in the badlands of Wyoming that their teams came close to combat. Today the skirmishing is more genteel, although no less forceful. Some experts, for example, have contended vigorously that dinosaurs must have...
...Institute for Conservation of Archaeology (ICA), which for seven years carried out environmental impact studies for the Peabody Museum, will shortly complete its final projects before it becomes extinct itself...
...last three films with help from producers in France, Britain and New Zealand. Other directors may receive grants from the Art Theater Guild, which in the past 20 years has helped launch the careers of Oshima, Susumu Hani and Masahiro Shinoda. "If Japanese cinema hasn't become extinct," says Critic Sato, "it is because of the life-and-death efforts of directors who risk their own money and property to make movies...
...world's most notorious dastards. Imposing men they were-Drax, Blofeld, mad and wily Auric Goldfinger. Somehow this Kamal, this jet-set smuggler, seemed less than they, less than a man, shrunken into his dreary sins, human villainy reduced to venality. He looked wary and frail, like an extinct bird on a porcelain vase. He would hardly be worth killing horribly...
...side of history lies the cratered and extinct universe of the death camps, on the other, the indifferent world. "The connecting link," Brown observes, "is story." Wiesel's fierce tales were born of silence. After his liberation, he refused to speak on the subject of the Jewish agony. With good reason. Wiesel lost his mother and younger sister at the first "selection"; his father died soon afterward. "Children for me," he recalled, "evoke war, thunder and hate, shouts, screams, dogs howling." He was to search for ten years before he found a vocabulary that allowed him to articulate...