Word: longingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...going to get in the claustrophobic calamity that is air travel. The chair is 19-in. (48 cm) wide, affording about 5% more room than on other jets on this route. There's a 8.4 in. (21 cm) video screen with about 3,000 hours of programming, (about as long an overnight flight can feel). Alex Hervet, an A380 design engineer, explained to me that he repositioned the hinge point on the chair back an inch higher so that your knees won't get squeezed when the guy in front of you reclines his seat. Subtle LED lighting throughout...
...animals in question were crocodiles, which thrived in the wetlands of the ancient Sahara 100 million years ago. Sereno found his first specimens of these prehistoric monsters about a decade ago, a species called Sarcosuchus, nicknamed SuperCroc: it was some 40 ft. long and weight 8 tons. (See pictures: "Dinosaur-Era Crocodiles Are Discovered in the Sahara...
...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 slicer." With its agile legs, he says, "that thing probably came out of the water and charged up the bank to attack dinosaurs." (See pictures: "Where Did the Hobbit Come From...
DogCroc, by contrast - dog-size, with a doglike nose - mostly ate plants and grubs. It could run too, but, Sereno suspects, "it probably ran down the bank to escape from dinosaurs." Bucktoothed RatCroc was also small and ate a similar diet. DuckCroc, about 3 ft. long, had a broad snout for rooting in shallow water and onshore, ducklike, for fish and frogs. And PancakeCroc was named for its wide, flat head, which it kept low, jaws open, waiting for an unsuspecting dinosaur to step into the mouth. "Modern crocs can take prey three times their size, if necessary," says Sereno...
...macroeconomic fundamentals right and letting market forces and the private sector do the rest. It depends also on having effective, clean governments, at every level down to the village, which do not waste economic largesse or appropriate it for the use of their own politicians and officials. That has long been understood in true exemplars of development like Singapore. It now needs to be adopted, seriously and comprehensively, by India. If that happens, India really will be the shining success story that its leaders so manifestly believe it is going to be. India will be better...