Word: parkes
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That seemed to be the consensus among almost 2,000 participants as they swung into action at the Harvard National Model United Nations at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston yesterday...
...Pratt had appeared as a speaker at white supremacist and militia events. Pratt announced he would step down, at least for now, to fight charges that he appeared at a number of such events. The thorniest issue was an allegation that Pratt spoke at a 1992 meeting in Estes Park, Colorado that was headlined by Pete Peters, leader of a group that its critics say supports violence to promote white supremacy. Others on the bill included former Ku Klux Klan leader and Aryan Nation official Louis Bream and Aryan Nations Founder Richard Butler. Buchanan stood by his manager, quickly calling...
...anybody who has seen Jurassic Park knows, plants and animals sealed in amber are a potential source of prehistoric DNA. Scientists have extracted genetic material from, among other things, a 17 million-year-old magnolia leaf, a 30 million-year-old termite and a 120 million-year-old weevil. Yet no serious biologist believes it will ever be possible to clone a dinosaur from a few bits of DNA. Even so excellent a preservative as amber apparently can't keep DNA from breaking down into fragments that may be scientifically interesting but are biologically inert. That's one reason many...
...series is filled with intriguing secondary characters, especially Reese's domineering father, who is played with creepy panache by Ray Wise. Savannah is such deliciously bad Southern gothic that it may even help you forget the simply awful Northern Gotham that was Central Park West...
Atlanta has several un-Olympic venues: its various adult entertainment centers. Now, however, Mayor Bill Campbell wants to clean things up. Last week he blocked plans to open a lingerie-modeling studio across the street from Centennial Olympic Park, a 21-acre downtown plaza, and Olympic City, Coca-Cola's $20 million theme park. Campbell said the !X!CLUSIVE modeling studio violated the zoning code, which requires such adult-entertainment enterprises to be at least 1,000 ft. from parks. A city agency is reconsidering !X!CLUSIVE's request...