Word: fanged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bozeman, but he has no knack for academic decorum (administrators at the museum wish the rubber stamp could say, I DON'T GIVE A DARN WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS). He disdains intellectual showboating, describing his own tyrannosaurus as a "media specimen," valuable mainly because it will bring the fang-and-claw set into the museum to see really important stuff, like duckbills tending their offspring. His manner is casual and laconic, which fits with the scraggly beard, the sneakers and the bush hat. But when a volunteer presents some fossils he has gathered, Horner handles them attentively. Then he peers...
...most-wanted list. They often came to my home in the days before the movement began. But afterward, they didn't want to have contact with me, because they wanted to show that their ideas were their own and not simply given to them by Fang Lizhi...
...Fang Lizhi talks about the hope for democracy on the mainland and advises the young that the march toward freedom can be a long...
...deal was a classic face saver. Fang acknowledged that in opposing a political system of class struggle he had violated China's constitution. He made a vague promise not to engage in activities contrary to China, though not necessarily contrary to its leadership...
...timing of Fang's departure was probably linked to next week's summit of the seven leading industrial countries. Beijing wants them to lift their partial ban on loans. Another motive: the Capitol Hill debate over whether to restore China's most-favored-nation status...