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...dinosaurs take over the earth to the impassioned strains of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. An adorable clutch of baby tricerotopses hatches from eggs; sloe-eyed brontosauruses wade in marshes; a bony-backed stegosaurus struggles for its life against the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex. But as the years flash by, the world mysteriously grows hotter and more violent: swamps evaporate, earthquakes trigger giant tidal waves, and the princely reptiles crawl across an encroaching desert to meet their certain doom...
...regular Saturday hamburger cookouts. In the winter, when the weather was right, 25 or 30 people would wander down to the end of the dock to a little pavilion they called Fiddler's Green and spend the cocktail hour watching for the elusive sunset phenomenon known as the green flash. The ships' store was out there, with the telephones and mailboxes...
...politics, it is uneasy about security arrangements; some 400 U.S. agents are reportedly being brought in to help with the largest security operation ever attempted by Portugal. On May 10, after viewing a horse show at the Queluz palace, an undoubtedly weary traveler, surfeited with ceremony and controversy, will flash his signature wave and board Air Force One for the eight-hour flight home...
...yogurt was on my spoon. I saw it in a flash. The whole experience. Natural, whole-milk...
...country where Prime Ministers do not normally give fireside chats on television, Nakasone's speech was an extraordinary event. But then, these are not ordinary times for Japan. American impatience with Japan's slowness in opening its markets has reached a flash point, putting economic relations between the two countries in their most precarious position in decades. Nakasone recognized that dramatic action was needed to defuse the confrontation and preserve a trading partnership that has enriched both the U.S. and Japan...