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Paleontologists, of course, tend to relish arguing about bones as much as digging them up. But after much debate, most now agree that a Brontosaurus head should not be the familiar, friendly snub-nosed skull of children's books and TV's Flintstones, but rather a much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skull and Bones at Yale | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

In 1879 Marsh uncovered Bronto's remains in a quarry in Como Bluff, Wyo. The bones were headless, as all Brontosaurus skeletons ever found have been, because of fragile connections between head and neck. Marsh did what paleontologists often do when they are missing pieces in a fossil puzzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skull and Bones at Yale | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

He took 27 bullet wounds during the first 24 years of his life, battling such miserable miscreants as Flattop, the Mole, Pruneface, Mumbles, the Brow, B-B Eyes and 88 Keyes (the larcenous pianist). But the villains never got the best of Dick Tracy, the hatchet-jawed, hawk-nosed dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 12, 1981 | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

The son of emigrants from Greece, and a Republican himself until the mid-1960s, Tsongas abandoned some of his own New Deal assumptions well before Reagan's victory. The crux of Tsongas' revisionism was a rejection of the belief that government can solve all social problems with new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steps on the Road to Realism | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

During last year's presidential campaign, Reagan said that he would scrap the Synthetic Fuels Corporation that the Carter Administration had designed to administer the multibillion-dollar program. Once in office, Reagan fired John Sawhill, Carter's nominee to head the corporation, but he decided to keep the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Setbacks for Synfuels | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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