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Take sauropods, for example, the four-legged, long-necked giants that flourished in the Jurassic, the middle period of the dinosaurs' reign, which lasted from 208 million to 144 million years ago. These largest of all dinosaurs include Brontosaurus (an out-of-favor name these days: call them Apatosaurus, or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book on Dinosaurs | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Set designers Dave Overcamp and Monbill Fung make excellent use of Agassiz Theatre, managing to squeeze the crowded Brewster household into a relatively small stage. Costume designer Alice Ristroph captures the Victorian essence of Abby and Martha with their high-necked formal dresses and long gloves; the sudden emergence of...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: Heiresses Have Fun With Arsenic | 4/15/1993 | See Source »

Jacobs has a healthy respect for grandmothers' folk remedies and for unconventional therapies in general. He comes by it naturally. For though he is a conventionally trained pediatrician, he is also the son of a part- Cherokee father and full-blooded Mohawk mother, who used to break out the herbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dr. Jacobs' Alternative Mission | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

For his part, Gore was long criticized for being stiff-necked and arrogant, a policy wonk without humility or a sense of proportion. His brief and unsuccessful run for President in 1988 was seen by some as an example of overweening ambition. Gore's recent book, Earth in the Balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quayle vs. Gore | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

It is the rare undergraduate who truly cares about the powers that run this colossus of higher education. Stiff-necked bureaucratic types, after all, have little to say about whether you have a keg party in the Yard or dump you roommate into a "psycho-single." (That's left to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who's Who at Harvard: Meet the University's Chief Paper Pushers | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

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