Word: mammothly
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...Barnum would be seeing dollar signs, and so, apparently, is the team of French explorers who recently excavated a frozen 23,000-year-old woolly mammoth in Siberia ? and now wants to clone it. Bernard Buigues, the man who led the project to carve out a 23-ton ice block around the animal and helicopter it 150 miles to an ice cave laboratory, told reporters Wednesday that he hopes to either clone the animal or use its sperm to fertilize the egg of an Asian elephant. No action will be taken until April, Buigues said, at which point a team...
...able to read them under the bedcovers with a flashlight, but now every issue of Mad magazine can be yours. This mammoth seven-CD collection (for PC only) is unabated puerile nostalgia: a comprehensive archive from the pre-Alfred E. Neuman years (1952-56) through 1998. The multimedia element lets you complete all the fold-ins, listen to all the plastic 7-in. (Free Gift!) singles and watch short videos of legendary artists like Mort Drucker at work. The comic strips themselves look a little faded and grainy on a computer monitor, but at least future generations will see what...
This afternoon, under the mounted moose and elephant heads of Manhattan's Harvard Club, President Neil L. Rudenstine is expected to tell a group of 150 donors and administrators that the University's mammoth $2.1-billion Capital Campaign has reached--and perhaps even surpassed--its original goal...
Restoring an interior that in its original condition had never been documented in color photography proved to be nearly an act of archaeology. Hardy tested armfuls of swatches for the mammoth curtain, assessed carpet samples from several continents, appraised scores of variations on the foil wallpaper used in the hall's public areas. Misguided renovations in years past didn't help. The turbid purple-and-brown pattern on the auditorium carpet got that way because the first replacement had been matched to the worn, filthy colors of the original. Hardy's research revealed that in 1932, before 100 million shoes...
...Music] Walt Disney Records, Mammoth, Lyric Street...