Word: fodders
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Super size and speed make the finds perfect fodder for the evening news and for the imaginations of eight-year-old dino devotees. But scientists are more interested in what the discoveries, reported last week in the journal Science and in National Geographic, say about where dinosaurs lived and how they evolved. "We have a pretty good record from North America, Asia and South America," says paleontologist Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. "But we're just now starting to get a picture of the dinosaur fauna of Africa...
Even before the auction's astronomical proceeds had materialized, there were some nasty returns for the principal beneficiaries, Jackie's children Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and John Jr. "How viscerally cruel it was," wrote New York magazine, "for Caroline and John to auction off their mom as Home Shopping Network fodder." Last week, as the buying orgy intensified, a Kennedy family intimate who would comment only off the record called the auction "the pits." The source denies reports that the children, thanks to the complex terms of Jackie's will, are cash poor. "This auction is going to make them rich...
...extension of anyone "different"--into an America that at the moment seems ready to take up arms and shoot holes in the melting pot. Indeed, that may be a part of Hollywood's continuing reluctance to confront the issue. As exotics--drag queens or dying swans--gays are fine fodder for movies. But Hollywood sees little need to show that the vast majority of gays are ordinary, reasonably complicated people. They are the folks who work next to you at the steel press or in the sales office...
...headquarters of GOP presidential hopeful Malcolm "Steve" Forbes. "We're treating it as a typical break-in, a regrettable fact of urban life," Forbes campaign spokeswoman Gretchen Morgenson assured the Associated Press. "Until we know otherwise, that's what we're going to assume it is." There is ample fodder for conspiracy theorists nonetheless. The perpetrators removed a fax machine and a copying machine, left a computer and printer on and rifled through computer disks with lists of prospective Forbes supporters...
...Gina's story is fodder for TV and movies because there's lesson in there," said Curtis M. Dickson, Grant's uncle, who watched the program. "(The protagonist of the episode) killed again, but that's not Gina. She would never do that...