Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie Jurassic Park, dinosaur fossils are found by a jet-setting paleontologist with a millionaire benefactor and a glamorous female assistant. In real life the relics are more often discovered by the likes of Stan Sacrison, 37, a plumber and electrician who likes to wander around sheep ranches near his home in Buffalo, South Dakota, looking for prehistoric bones. Last May, while scrambling up the side of a butte, he noticed an unusually large pelvic bone and three sun-bleached vertebrae poking out of the siltstone. "I could tell right away it was a Tyrannosaurus rex, because they're really...
...they have found about 20% of the skeleton, but they are certain the rest is nearby. Meanwhile, Sacrison plans to look for more skeletons. If he has the time, he would also like to see Jurassic Park. "I hear," he says, "it has great special effects...
Each summer Time goes to battle, well, to bat, against the likes of the New York Times and Newsweek in the softball fields of Manhattan's Central Park. This Publishers League season, however, did not begin well. Said captain Lamarr Tsufura, who troubleshoots computer problems during the off-season: "We had a disastrous game on opening day." But ya gotta believe...
Universal Studios Florida announced a $3 billion expansion of its Orlando theme park, 12 miles from Walt Disney World. The new venture will feature a Jurassic Park ride and other Spielbergian creations...
...good idea of what that's like. Almost every night after dinner, instead of clicking on their TV set and waiting to be entertained, they sit down at their computers and entertain themselves. Dialing a local access number from their San Francisco living room, they enter the virtual amusement park of the ImagiNation Network, a combination Las Vegas, Nintendo and Sunday-afternoon social club, where they can compete against fellow computer users in everything from bridge and blackjack to medieval role-playing fantasies...