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...races so far, becoming the youngest-ever driver to lead the world championship - has left circuits reporting a "surge in demand," says Graham Smith, secretary of the Association of British Kart Clubs. In the race to become the next Hamilton, karting is "fundamental to any young driver," says Christian Horner, team principal at Formula One's Red Bull Racing team...
...Rowland sliced his way through the field to win - prompted McLaren to sign him to the Formula One team's Young Driver Support Program earlier this year. (One of its first recruits in 1998: a 13-year-old Hamilton.) As with similar schemes run by racing's top teams - Horner's Red Bull backs 16 young drivers of its own, all of whom cut their teeth in karting - McLaren offers its juniors technical, management and fitness advice, as well as cash...
...Music Society have indulged their shared love for a series of vocal works from the French baroque master Louis-Nicolas Clérambault and turned it into “Metamorphoses,” an intimate yet operatic fusion of dance, theater, and music that will premiere at the Horner Room at Agassiz Theatre...
...scientists last month announced the discovery of the first complete skeleton of a pliosaur, a vicious 10-m-long sea predator with teeth as big as cucumbers [Oct. 16]. Most dinosaurs, however, weren't nearly so scary, as TIME reported in its Sept. 10, 1990, story on paleontologist Jack Horner...
...Horner has demonstrated that some dinosaurs were nurturing parents, raising their young in large nesting colonies and bringing their offspring berries and green vegetation, much as do birds. He has shown that the young in such species were neotenous?or cute, as Horner puts it more plainly; until maturity they were gawky, with such vulnerable traits as enlarged heads, big eyes and shortened snouts, which theorists of animal behavior believe elicit the nurturing response in humans and other child-rearing species. In place of the familiar panoramas of flesh-ripping Godzillas, HORNER DESCRIBES THE MOST COMMON DINOSAURS AS 'THE COWS...