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...bones may also tell something about how pterosaurs flew. Experts have long doubted that the great creatures could flap their wings hard enough to get off the ground. They speculated that the flying reptiles climbed cliffs or mountains and soared off them like gliders. Presumably, Lawson's considerably larger pterosaurs would have found it even harder to get airborne. Yet their remains were found in an area that is -and probably was, during the age of dinosaurs-at least 20 or 30 miles from any mountains. Unless the bones were washed downstream from their original resting place, their locale...
...just one of these occasions, late in February, that the letter came. It was on cream-colored stationery--quite thick and impressive looking--with "The White House" embossed in small, plain letters on the flap. Walter had received no mail in the past three months, except a foreclosure notice from his bank and a curt note from the finance company telling him his 1959 Chevy had been repossessed. Walter was, needless to say, excited. He carefully ripped off the end of the envelope, pulled out the letter and read...
...merchants of death" are constantly spewing forth their lethal products in unchecked and unbridled quantities, in most cases for reasons of greed, in many instances to promote or advance wars, what purpose is being served by the United(?) Nations and its Secretary-General figurehead, who does nothing but uselessly flap about like a beheaded chicken...
...Italy. In May 1973, during the opening of an ethnographical exhibition in the Konstmuseum at Gothenburg in Sweden, someone made off with a major Matisse, the Girl in White. It was so crudely sliced out of its frame that Matisse's signature was left dangling on a flap of canvas from the stretcher. The painting is still lost...
...LONG-RANGE PLANNING. The U.S. has problems, and one of them is that it is always swinging one way or the other like a pendulum. We never plan anything. Take air-and water-pollution control, for instance. Suddenly there is a great big flap, and everybody gets excited, and all of a sudden some law is passed; it's got to be done within a very short time frame and it costs you a fortune to do it. You can't clean up the country in four years...