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...dinosaur burial ground, now a dry, undulating pasture of sage and buffalo grass just below the North Dakota border, was once a subtropical floodplain, where dinosaurs roamed amid palm trees and ferns on the edge of a dying inland sea. One day a mature male T. rex, weighing up to five tons and measuring nearly 40 feet in length, died in a silty washout. At least two albertosaurs, sharp-toothed scavengers about half T. rex's size, fed on the carcass, leaving a few of their teeth behind. Within months a river overflowed its banks and swept the bones away...
...California sun sparkles through the palm trees. The movie star, her platinum hair shielded from the wind by a scarf, drives up in a turquoise convertible. Her boyfriend, dressed incongruously in suit and tie, leaps into the car with a boyish bounce. "Let's go, Monroe," he chirps. She replies: "Yes, sir, Mr. Attorney General...
...salt, has a clearly defined width of 462 ft. and washes a shoreline 280 ft. long, composed of 600 tons of crushed, polished pebbles, all under a 660-ft. retractable roof. The chirping of birds is filtered through a sound system and echoes in the air even as plastic palm trees flutter in a piped-in breeze. When it officially opens this week, 10,000 people at a time will be able to play in the temperature-controlled waters of this man-made beach...
...Falwell is happy to conjecture, "I think RU 486 will be a major issue in the campaign if it is not yet distributed." His goal, he says, will be to elect a leader "with different morals than the President." The lifers will talk about death that hides in the palm of a hand; the choicers about empowerment a woman can hold between two fingers. Although the advent of RU 486 could greatly change the nature of the abortion debate, it is unlikely to make it go away...
...other diners barely look up from their pasta salads. Harry's five-year- old daughter, who doesn't talk, suddenly breaks her silence with one cryptic sentence: "Everything must go." And that's not counting the virtual- reality glasses that transport Harry into an 18th century ballroom, the strange palm-tree tattoos that seem to have become a fashion statement, and the creepy Senator who tries to recruit Harry to some shadowy cause by sending him a pen-and-ink drawing -- of a rhinoceros...