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...learns about Earth through a child's eyes, a perspective director Steven Spielberg emphasizes by filming parts of the movie at Elliot's height. The waddling little fellow lives among the stuffed animals, puppets and toys in Elliott's vast collection. He first learns to speak from Big Bird on Sesame Street. And his initial introduction to human society is Elliott's monologue about the artifacts on his desk. These are little men...This is Screedo, and Hammerhead, and Walrusman, and Snaggletooth...They can even have wars. (Holding up a ceramic peanut bank) This is a peanut...
...largest in history: 945,000 bachelor's degrees, 303,000 master's degrees, 33,300 doctorates and an all-time high of 73,600 first professional degrees. Most of its graduates were born around 1960, at the tail end of the baby boom and the height of national prosperity, and will turn 40 around the year 2000. This class, almost evenly divided between male and female graduates, has great demographic diversity, with many older students and minorities...
...Nijinsky. When he saw a local production of The King and I, he narrowed his sights still further-to Broadway. He studied drama at the University of Texas at Austin and after graduating in 1961 turned north toward Times Square. He missed out on several parts because of his height, but finally got into the chorus of Irma La Douce. Some of the other shows he was in, Baker Street and A Joyful Noise, were less successful, but Tune remembers those days in the chorus line as the happiest of his life. "I love being part of a team...
...Royal Marine commandos and Parachute Regiment troops near Port San Carlos. Slogging across the boggy ground, they had captured 1,600 Argentine troops near the settlement of Goose Green (see map). Then, in a combination of rapid marches and bold helicopter assaults, they secured the commanding height of Mount Kent, overlooking Port Stanley. Encountering almost no Argentine resistance, they set up forward observation posts on hills known as the Two Sisters, only six miles from the capital...
...eight bone fragments from two different individuals. One, discovered last November by White, is the upper part of a left femur, or thighbone, about 6 in. long. A skilled anatomist, White was able to judge not only the was able to judge not only the creature's height but also its sex and age: male, about 16 or 17 years old. From markings showing where the muscles were attached to the bone, he also determined that this ancient teen-ager walked upright...