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...early dinosaur experts were hampered, however, by a shortage of fossils, and they made egregious mistakes about what the creatures looked like. Owen believed, for example, that Iguanodon, a grazing beast some 30 ft. in length, was built something like a hippopotamus, with a small, sharp horn on its nose. Half a century later, scientists decided the creature was shaped more like a kangaroo and the horn was really a misplaced claw that belonged on its forefoot. Now they think it was probably four-footed after...
...like a tree. He made a one-point landing on his face." Dr. Harry Smith of San Antonio, Texas, a leading expert witness, asserted this scenario was impossible. The bones beneath King's right eye were crushed to powder, which required a pressure equivalent to 350 lbs., while his nose, which would have been broken by pressure of about 50 lbs., remained intact. Such uneven damage could not come from a flat surface like a parking lot, said Smith, only from something selective, like a baton...
Today is about Princeton grad Neil Rudenstine and Princeton President Harold Shapiro (not entirely affectionately known at Old Nassau as "Hal" for certain personality characteristics he shares with the computer from 2001) going nose to nose over a cup of tea about whose volleyball team is better...
Daumier's work does not only focus on the king: other government officials were also the artist's targets. The drawing "D'Argout" exaggerates the long nose of its subject, the chief censor. Beneath the image is a coat of arms featuring the nose and a pair of scissors, which represent the office of censor. This common practice of embellishing one aspect of a person's features is known as "portrait charge...
...apocalypse recedes. Yet its fascination endures. It is fine to look down one's nose at Waco. But Bible-thumping psychopaths hold no monopoly on belief in the End. Before casting stones at the easy targets, a secular society might reflect on its own ample appetite for apocalypse...