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...more than 3.3 lb., making it one of the largest rodents on Earth (scientists provisionally named the housecat-size animal the Bosavi woolly rat). The historic find also included 16 new species of frogs, at least three new types of fish and one bat. "It was mind-blowing," George McGavin, a biologist with the BBC team, told England's Guardian newspaper. "The crater of Mount Bosavi really is the lost world...
DIED. DARREN MCGAVIN, 83, movie-set painter turned actor who played a streetwise crime reporter in the 1970s TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and the Old Man, Ralphie Parker's curmudgeonly dad, in the 1983 classic A Christmas Story; in Los Angeles. He won an Emmy in 1990 for playing the title character's father in Murphy Brown...
Actor Darren McGavin, host of the special, called it "an archaeological quest." Indeed, one conventional archaeologist and a few other skeptics were allowed a sentence or two expressing doubt about the reality of the ark and the Deluge. But their views were quickly swept away by another deluge -- of dubious testimony by "experts," many of them creationists who take the Bible's revelations literally and reject much of modern science...
...Host McGavin acted impressed: These demonstrations "support the biblical story of the Deluge in every detail." One viewer who had good reason to doubt that statement -- and many others -- was Gerald Larue, a professor emeritus of biblical history and archaeology at the University of Southern California. A member of the Skeptics Society, an organization devoted to investigating pseudo science, Larue had been interviewed for an earlier Sun International production and, after seeing that show, felt he had been set up as a straw man. It inspired him to coach George Jammal, an acquaintance, to perpetrate the hoax, intended to expose...
...Pfeiffer adds her own tasty mix of sweetness and vinegar. A Table at Ciro's, from a Budd Schulberg story, resorts to broader caricature, as some familiar Hollywood types (washed-up director, naive ingenue, swaggering Latin lover) gather at a dinner hosted by a powerful studio mogul. But Darren McGavin plays the bigwig with such bemused dignity that the character seems brand...