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When he examined the specimen under a microscope, Ostrom noticed a feature on "Archy" that had not been preserved on the three other known Archaeopteryx fossils. It was the faint imprint of a horny sheath-or fingernail-like covering-on the three claws protruding from each of the wings of these ancient birds. Resembling the talons of a contemporary eagle, these razor-sharp, miniature scythes were obviously better suited for catching and slicing up prey than for scampering up the trunks of trees. Thus, Ostrom suggests, Archaeopteryx's lizard-like forebears probably launched themselves into the air from...
...shot through with rueful humor. Playwright Storey subtly draws an ironic parallel between the plight of the two men and the fate of England. The word island recurs: England shorn of empire, reduced to her physical boundaries, but with names and deeds of the past intoned like a faint requiem of glory-Newton, and Sir Walter Raleigh and the discovery of penicillin. The sceptered isle has become a gleamless cinder on the tides of history...
...walls were restored to a somber beige 40 minutes later. All that remained were the scattered leaflets and a faint message on the steps reading "Fuck the CFIA...
where glossy male performers dressed in tightly cut dinner jackets or casual turtleneck sweaters to sing "Raindrops Keep Falling" and "The Impossible Dream," such reports were faint praise.) "And Elvis has never been better," they said. No quibbling over that. Clearly, whatever was happening out there in the desert, it was something we owed in to ourselves...
...With the job complete and the four ready to make their escape, they contemplated taking a hostage. They wanted to take a girl friend of Mayersohn's but when she informed them she would faint they settled on taking the smallest male. When they reached McKinlock Hall's second floor, he was released...