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David G. Sword and Charles K. Lee come from very different places. Sword, 23, was born in Moose Jaw (pop. 34,424), an agriculture hub in the prairie lands of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Friends say the family has bounced around a lot, and the address given for Sword in the class of 1993 freshman register is for a military post office box in upstate New York...
...knows why a change in position might make such a difference, but there are several possibilities. Breathing difficulties top the list. "Because of the shape of the face and the anatomy, lying on the tummy does not allow the jaw to fall forward as it does in an adult," says British pediatrician Peter Fleming, who has studied sleeping position for more than a decade. "It pushes the jaw slightly backward, and with a huge tongue and small airways, that may actually contribute to airway obstruction." Babies also sleep more deeply on their stomach than on their back and take longer...
...HAPPINESS on the same wall every day. The novel veers to turn-of- the-millennium Berlin, where a writer named Steve Erickson is murdered, then to an old recluse named Tom in the American desert, then to what must be early 19th century Monticello, where Jefferson and John Adams jaw dispiritedly about a vast slave rebellion that has taken over Virginia...
Listening to Conyers' attack, the 54-year-old, 6-ft. 2-in. Reno thrust out her jaw and glared. Then, her voice quavering, she replied, "I haven't tried to rationalize the death of children, Congressman. I feel more strongly about it than you will ever know. But I have neither tried to rationalize the death of four ((Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms)) agents, and I will not walk away from a compound where ATF agents had been killed by people who knew they were agents and leave them unsurrounded." Then she added, "Most of all, Congressman, I will...
Eoraptor has so many primitive features, including an exceptionally simple jaw, that Sereno thinks it probably originated just a short time after the ornithischians and saurischians diverged. Says Sereno: "Fifteen years ago, it was a radical idea to think that dinosaurs came from a common stem. Now we are just inches away from finding that stem...