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What killed the dinosaurs? Scientists have been debating that one for a long time. They know that 65 million years ago, a large object, five or six miles across, blasted a 120-mile-wide crater at the tip of what today is Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. They also know that the impact, or more accurately, the worldwide, sunlight-blocking shroud of dust it kicked up, wiped out some 70% of the earth's plant and animal species--including the dinosaurs. But what, precisely, was the object that sealed their fate...
Animal-rights groups also object to the youth hunts now sponsored by some 40 states in hopes of teaching gun safety and attracting fresh recruits to a sport whose participants are aging and dwindling, a sport in danger of losing its place in our national life. Says Heidi Prescott, national director of The Fund for Animals: "Both sides are going after the same target: the kids...
...between the food on the plate and the living, breathing, warm-blooded creature (in the forest or in the commercial gulag-cum-slaughterhouse) is getting thinner by the year, to the point of metaphysical disconnect. The disconnect is a form of stupidity or of moral carelessness. How can anyone object to hunting but also eat meat raised in misery for the slaughterhouse? Who has clean hands? Surely not the consumers of the 38 million cows and calves, the 92 million hogs, the 4 million sheep and 7 billion chickens killed last year, to say nothing of the animals slaughtered...
...look, for instance, of Toy Story's indoor scenes and plastic dolls--sorry, "action figures"--counted as dazzling effects in 1995. But before the film was even out, Pixar's digital warriors had moved on to the thornier challenges posed by A Bug's Life. "The more symmetrical the object, the easier it is for a computer to render," says John Lasseter, who directed both films. "The more organic, the more difficult...
...Lexington Street resident reports that a man from Everett struck him on the head with an object near the kiosk located in front of the Harvard Square T station...