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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...strangest thing about these animals isn't their names, though; it's the fact that many of them weren't flat to the ground, like modern crocs, but stood upright and walked on their legs, like modern mammals. "We have an idea of what a crocodile should be and what a mammal should be," says Sereno, "but you have to break down these categories to see what was going on in Africa back then." BoarCroc, for example, was 20 ft. long and had three rows of fangs, like a boar from hell, which made it what Sereno calls a "dinosaur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super-Crocodiles May Have Dined on Dinosaurs | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...pictures are blockbusters. Since The Perfect Storm in 2000, only his Ocean's (Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen) capers have topped $100 million at the domestic box office. But at 48, Clooney--handsome and affable, with a wit that can deftly cut as it charms--is surely the modern idea and ideal of stardom. Whereas other celebrities seem tortured by the public attention their work earns them, he positively bathes in it. Remember what Mel Brooks as Louis XVI proclaimed in History of the World, Part I? "It's good to be the King." Clooney must think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clooneypalooza: A Star Is Airborne | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

Flanzraich said he thought about the idea while reading posters in Sever with a friend. He said he saw posters advertising free food...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Email List for Free Nom Noms | 11/22/2009 | See Source »

...whole idea was to keep our foot on the pedal, not play scared, and if everybody’s looking for somebody to blame, you can blame this guy right here,” Williams said, pointing to himself...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Stages Fourth-Quarter Rally, Beats Yale 14-10 in 126th Playing of The Game | 11/21/2009 | See Source »

...about what can be done. In a recent interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Medvedev questioned a pledge by Nurgaliyev earlier this year to eradicate corruption in the nation's police forces over the course of a month. "I would hope that the Interior Minister has a clear idea of how to combat corruption," Medvedev said. "This certainly cannot be achieved in one month. I also think that he only meant the most grievous offenses in his ministry. Rooting out corruption will keep us busy for years." (Read: "New Rules for Russia's Cops: No Bribes or Wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's YouTube Craze: Exposing Police Corruption | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

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