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...printing their rebuttal in the same issue. "There's a lot going on in the (scientific) community of trying to ?shoot this down,? " Everett Gibson, co-leader of the agency's asteroid team, told the Associated Press. He added that he was "more convinced than ever" of the fossil's authenticity. And so the debate continues to rage ? to be settled, perhaps, only when the little green men come forward in person...
Louis C. Jacobs, a noted dinosaur expert at Southern Methodist University, said the Utah fossil discoveries are "hugely" important because they help give a picture of the world during an unknown period...
...only two felonies--failing to report $31,700 in travelers' checks to U.S. Customs when he returned from Japan, and failing to report $15,000 in cash that he and a friend took on a trip to Peru. He was also convicted of two misdemeanors: illegally taking a fossil worth less than $100 from federal land and illegally retaining another small fossil. On his Bureau of Prisons admission form, Larson's offense was listed as "failure to fill out forms...
...whom you ask. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Mandel is convinced the penalty would have been more severe if local press coverage hadn't tainted his case. The defense, predictably, thinks it won by persuading the jury that its client was the victim of academics trying to drive commercial fossil hunters out of business...
...million-plus that Sue is expected to draw will undoubtedly seem fair to Williams, although scientists like the Academy of Natural Sciences' Wolberg fear it will send the costs of acquiring important fossils out of sight. In fact, another T. rex, known as Mr. Z Rex, is on the market for a staggering $12 million. The owners, says Jim Wyatt, a fossil dealer who is acting as broker, "based that price on the excitement generated by T. rexes and dinosaurs in general over the past few years...