Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chiappe and his colleagues plan to return to their dinosaurian mother lode next March. Says Coria: "This discovery opens large doors that had remained closed for years." To make sure the site won't fall prey to contemporary egg snatchers, the provincial government has declared it a protected "paleontological park" and is keeping it under full-time guard...
...hunter education and safety courses in schools, which often are sponsored by state wildlife agencies with support from firearms manufacturers. "Hunting breeds insensitivity to the suffering of others, whether animal or human," says Susie Cutler, 39, a Porter, Ind., lawyer who demonstrates against hunters in a nearby state park. "You can look at some of the shooting rampages in schools--a lot of [these kids] were taught to hunt by adults. In their minds, killing is a viable option" in dealing with problems...
...someone love animals--cats, dogs, beasts of the field--and then shoot to death an animal as elegant as a deer or a dove? To answer the question, begin with the paradox of Teddy Roosevelt: America's greatest conservationist, creator of the national park system--and archtype Bambi killer. Roosevelt blazed away at all the animals of creation...
Does CGI spell the end of the old school? Not by a long shot: the ease with which the crudely drawn two-dimensional, or 2-D, worlds of South Park and The Simpsons have won over America's couch-potato masses is proof that story matters more than even the most eye-popping special effects. "Sooner or later, all this stuff is going to seem antiquated," admits Andrew Stanton, the co-director and screenwriter of A Bug's Life. "The script is the only thing that isn't going to deteriorate over time...
...work culture is complex, but there's one really practical factor that accounts for the flourishing world of small business: you can do it fast and do it cheap. You can replicate all the functions of a fancy corporate office in your two-room quarters in the office park. This holiday season, computers are packed with such goodies as 333-MHz speed, fat hard drives, plenty of memory, bundled office suites that take you from spreadsheets to word processing to building your own website--all for under $1,000. Rube Goldberg-like contraptions that scan, fax, print and copy, like...