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Geologist Robert Young was exploring Wells Gulch in western Colorado last summer when he picked up what seemed to be an interesting rock. Some rock. It turned out to be part of a cache of what are probably the oldest dinosaur eggs ever discovered. Though now shattered, the 145 million-year-old eggs would have measured approximately 8 in. long and 3 1/2 in. across. Young, whose find was announced last week, has no idea what species of dinosaur produced the eggs, but they may shed new light on nesting habits of the prehistoric beasts. Most dinosaurs, like modern reptiles...
...citizen of the Seneca nation, I am moved to comment on your presentation of Native Americans. The Iroquois Confederacy, of which the Seneca is a member, is among the world's oldest continuously functioning democracies. In 1784 and 1794 our government concluded treaties with your government that recognize the political integrity and separateness of our nations and that grant the U.S. land on which to live. These treaties formed the political basis of the Indian nations' relationship to the U.S. But beyond the political reasons for our steadfast refusal to be integrated are spiritual reasons. It is not a mistake...
Blackmun is the third-oldest member of the court after Justices William j. Brennan, 81, and Thurgood Marshall, 79. The others are Byron R. White, 70; Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, 62; John Paul Stevens, 67; Sandra Day O'Connor, 57 and Antonin Scalia...
Oliver Laurence North's childhood was a Saturday Evening Post cover come to life. The oldest of four children, he was born in 1943 in San Antonio, but raised in Philmont, N.Y., a hamlet in the rolling hills of the Hudson Valley, about 30 miles south of Albany. His parents, Ann and Oliver Clay North, moved to Philmont shortly after World War II to help in the family wool-combing mill. North's father had won a Silver Star as an Army colonel in World War II, and he imbued his son with a fervent sense of patriotism. Family...
Broadway prepares to celebrate as George Abbott, the theater' s grandest, oldest man, turns 100 -- yes, 100 -- still directing plays...