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With entry to the epicentre of America’s oldest college restricted to Harvard ID-holders and their guests, the tour groups that regularly block pathways and gawk at students on their way to classes were nowhere to be seen. With the exception of clusters of eager would-be Harvard parents and their children, there were no massive groups of camera-toting intruders taking pictures of real-life-honest-to-goodness Harvard students or naïvely rubbing our benefactor’s foot for good luck...
...delicate structures, so there's no way of knowing whether Mei long had feathers. But other strata of the Liaoning fossil beds are much finer grained. That's where paleontologists found the feathered tyrannosaur, which Xu and Norell named Dilong paradoxus ("surprising emperor dragon"). It's one of the oldest known tyrannosaurs, and one of the emu-size specimens has unmistakable traces of primitive feathers on its tail and jaw. Those filaments, which are about three-quarters of an inch long and branched like modern feathers, are the first direct evidence that tyrannosaurs sported plumage. Because Dilong paradoxus...
After standing me up for an interview that his publicist neglected to tell him about, Ellroy took me to dinner at one of Boston’s oldest patrician steakhouses. He began by ordering four shots of espresso with ice on the side—and I quickly discovered that he was loud and direct, but maintained a conscious politeness throughout our conversation...
...will be echoed in subsequent displays. Gerardi hopes to showcase a series of four exhibits a year, each displaying part of the Peabody’s huge photographic collection. The collection could even be said to trace the history of anthropology itself, as the Peabody is one of the oldest anthropological museums in the world...
...Boston subway system is the oldest in America; its first station, Park Street, opened...