Word: finding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This summer, after scrapping plans to turn the paper into a tabloid, Hearst put it up for sale. Company executives, who flew from New York City to announce the shutdown in the paper's newsroom, said they were unable to find a buyer. Among those who declined to purchase the operation, which reportedly lost $2 million a month, were industrialist Marvin Davis and Jose Lozano, publisher of the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion. Now that the Herald Examiner is gone, Los Angeles becomes the latest and largest addition to the growing list of U.S. cities with only one major daily...
...cases, letting students be themselves can mean letting them discover that they are straight. Says Martin: "Several young men in the school were molested by male relatives and thought they must be gay. It was apparent to us that these boys were heterosexual, but we had to let them find out for themselves...
Last week, at the meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists in Austin, Sereno for the first time revealed details of the find, made last year by a joint U.S.-Argentine expedition. The dinosaur was named Herrerasaurus, after Victorino Herrera, the goat farmer who first led scientists to the area in northwestern Argentina where the bones were found. Smaller than Apatosaurus and less fearsome than Tyrannosaurus, this dinosaur flourished 230 million years ago during the unique period when most of the earth's landmasses were gathered into a single supercontinent, now called Pangea. Until the most recent find, only...
Peter and Judy find a board game under a tree one afternoon while their parents are out and take it home to play. When they roll the dice, strange events ensue: rhinoceroses stampede into the living room, monkeys trash the kitchen, an 8-ft. snake luxuriates on the living-room mantel. A monsoon erupts, and volcanic lava fills the house, until, on the brink of disaster, Peter and Judy manage to end the game before their parents come home. The house instantly returns to normal. But then neighboring children take the game to their own house to play, unaware...
...fantasy, won the Caldecott Medal, the industry's most prestigious award for illustrated children's books. The Polar Express, also a Caldecott winner, has appeared on best-seller lists in three Christmas seasons since its release in 1985. In this lovely tale, a boy wakes on Christmas Eve to find a train wreathed in steam below his bedroom window, waiting to take him to the North Pole and a meeting with Santa Claus. In all, the nine books Van Allsburg has published over the past decade have sold almost 2 million copies...