Word: mammothly
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...close-up, they're sometimes as convincing as the Sleestacks in Land of the Lost. The narration, while informative, can slip into corny anthropomorphism ("This female Utahraptor is up to no good!"), none of which undercuts the eternal coolness factor of the extinct. Last month Discovery's Raising the Mammoth drew 10.1 million people, the biggest cable-documentary audience ever, and Haines is at work on follow-ups. Thankfully, his stars may be able to crush spines in their powerful jaws, but they can't ask for raises...
...short answer is no. The slightly longer answer is definitely not. The Jurassic Park idea--amber, insects and bits of frog DNA--would not work in a million years, and it was by far the most ingenious suggestion yet made for how to find dinosaur genes. Cloning a mammoth--flash-frozen for several thousand years--might just prove feasible one day. But dinosaurs, 65 million years...
...great to have JD [Justin Denham] back for the match," said co-captain Ed Pankau. "He is such a mammoth force...
Leahy would be the last man to discount the value of good salesmanship, but the real issue, he insists, is the quality of Airbus jets. He eagerly awaits the planned A3XX, a double-deck 550-seat mammoth with onboard sleeping areas, lounges, duty-free shops and exercise rooms, which will sell for up to $240 million apiece. "It will be a totally different way of flying," he says. Airbus will put the plane in service by 2005 if it can get the advance orders to justify the $12 billion development cost. So far, only a handful of airlines, mainly...
...works project in history--was coming in on time and within budget. Not anymore. Originally budgeted to cost $10.8 billion, overruns and unanticipated construction challenges have added $1.4 billion to the cost of the project. While it was not surprising that some cost targets were not met in this mammoth project, there is a deeper problem: The managers of the project apparently concealed that information from state officials, bond rating agencies and the public...