Word: gobi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never been a sucker for freebies, knowing all too well that they're usually more hassle than they're worth. So when I heard about all the new free-PC offers, I couldn't help wincing. Companies like Gobi, Intersquid and ePCdirect require you to pay up to $30 a month for Net access and are rife with hidden fees for basics like a monitor, tech support and one-time "start-up" charges. And then there's the nagging fear that these newcomers will vanish into cyberspace long before your three-year contract is up. Would you really want...
...several) and a huge House Formal every four years in January, but the upperclass people there are really backbiting and gossipy, and lots of folks transfer out. Once in a while, of course, a senior will decide to move "off-campus," abandoning the Houses altogether to trek through the Gobi Desert or teach English to Bolivian squirrels. Off-campus life can be isolating, but many find it rewarding. And unlike in the Houses, you have to cook all your own food...
Studying nomads comes naturally to Nicola Di Cosmo, associate professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, who has held bit parts in Chinese movies, carried oxygen tanks for the Venetian health department and rebuffed wrestling challenges by drunken Mongolians in the middle of Gobi desert...
...start with, says Norell, the eggs he found are identical to eggs uncovered in 1923, also in the Gobi, by the famed fossil hunter Roy Chapman Andrews. Most of the bones in the area Andrews explored belonged to a vegetarian dinosaur called Protoceratops, so Andrews thought the eggs did too. Since a predator's remains were found lying on top of one clutch of eggs, scientists assumed that it had died in the act of eating them and named it Oviraptor, or egg stealer. But Norell's discovery makes it clear that the unfairly maligned "thief" was more likely...
Norell is planning a return next summer to the Gobi, where there are undoubtedly more surprises awaiting. Jurassic Park 2 may have to take into account the mounting evidence that Tyrannosaurus and its kin resembled nesting robins -- albeit big robins with sharp teeth and really bad tempers...