Word: parkes
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...still discovered almost perfectly preserved in the permafrost meat locker. Many believe the present-day Yakutian horse is itself a throwback to the era of the ice ages. With such conflation of past and present, it seems almost reasonable when one Russian ecologist, Sergei Zimov, suggests that a "Pleistocene Park" could be established using the DNA magic of its Jurassic movie counterpart. Some scientists believe the mammoth could be brought back by inserting readily available, naturally refrigerated mammoth DNA into an elephant embryo...
CULTURE MAY NOT DISAPPEAR ALONG with the NEA, but it certainly will be weakened by funding cuts. MEGHAN GROSSCUP, age 15 Villa Park, Illinois AOL: MizSaigon1...
Michael Eisner is happy doing things. He just has to be doing everything. In 1989, during the televised extravaganza that launched the Disney-MGM Studio theme park in Florida, Eisner noticed that a spangle from the costume of one of the 1,200 dancers had fallen on the red carpet. He waited till the cameras had passed, then darted out, picked up the spangle and put it in his tuxedo pocket. At Disney, neatness counts. So, for the chairman and ceo, does a twin obsession for the big picture and the smallest, shiniest detail...
...cities all over the U.S., this gentle elegy was replicated. More than 4,000 people massed in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, passing out LONG LIVE THE DEAD bumper stickers in Merry Prankster green and creating a huge circle of drum players and mourner-celebrants. One sign read, "Fare thee well, fare thee well, we miss you more than words can tell." In Manhattan's Central Park, 700 Deadheads gathered under the full moon at the memorial to another fallen idol, John Lennon. In Washington, where more than 300 souls converged on the Lincoln Memorial, Rush Jones, 25, spoke his anxiety...
...question is not "is Dole too old for the job?" but "Is Clinton too young for the job?" EDWARD F. HALPIN Park Ridge, Illinois...