Word: hindes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. FOREGO, 27, one of racing's hardiest geldings; by lethal injection after fracturing his right hind leg; in Lexington, Ky. Enormous at 17 hands high, Forego raced like a runaway freight train--and his trainers complained that he carried about as much weight. He won 34 of 57 races, most memorably the 1976 Marlboro Cup. Lugging the top weight of 137 lbs., Forego thundered past Honest Pleasure in a come-from-behind victory, below, that helped earn him his third title as Horse of the Year...
According to the staff, however, the music choice is not as important as the Tasty's high-tech sound system, which can be operated by the proprietor as he stands be hind the grill...
...Health Sciences came tantalizingly close. From the red blood cells of an adult frog, they raised a crop of lively tadpoles. These tadpoles were impressive creatures, remembers University of Minnesota cell biologist Robert McKinnell, who followed the work closely. "They swam and ate and developed beautiful eyes and hind limbs," he says. But then, halfway through metamorphosis, they died...
Berkeley's Padian, on the other hand, contends that pterosaurs did not have to walk on their wings, but were agile two-legged runners. He also disagrees with the explanation University of Bristol paleontologist David Unwin offers for the long fifth toe that juts out from pterosaur hind limbs. Unwin believes this toe served as the attachment site for a second skinlike membrane that stretched between the animals' hind limbs. "Why else would the fifth toe have been so elongated?" he asks. Padian responds that Unwin's membrane does not make anatomical sense: among other things, it would have hampered...
...Barbara Ehrenreich in her piece on vacationing in bear country [ESSAY, Aug. 12]. When I am out camping and hiking, every snapping twig in the dark is surely a grizzly. It's amazing how many stumps on the hiking trail look exactly like a bear rearing on its hind legs. I've read that on the trails you should alert the bears you are coming by talking, singing or wearing a bell on your backpack. I was not singing or ringing when my daughter and I recently hiked in the Los Padres National Forest. Sure enough, we surprised a black...