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...itself. Too monolithic, too uniform, too global. The protesters prefer debate, diversity. They'd like to teach the world to sing in off-key counterpoint. To their minds, the IMF and the World Bank are tyrannical choirmasters with steel batons and a tin ear for cultural differences. They finance mammoth industrial projects that sweep up hundreds of workers from the countryside, decimating small farms and villages while swelling urban slums. They bottle up small streams into huge lakes contained behind gigantic dams, and they steer the contracts for the dams' construction to American and European companies...
...Bald-headed mammoth football player Isaiah Kacyvenski '00 was the 25th pick of the fourth round, and 119th overall, in the NFL draft and will be playing for the Seattle Seahawks next year. Harvard's all-time leading tackler, a three-time All-Ivy First Teamer and the first player to start all 40 games of a Crimson football career watched the proceedings for about...
Kerasiotes will be replaced by Andrew S. Natsios, Cellucci's former administration and finance secretary. Natsios is a budget hawk; he has been responsible for developing and implementing the state's spending plans over the past several years. If anyone is prepared to take over as mammoth a project as the Big Dig, it is Natsios...
...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...