Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, while covering the Crimson's 14-1 win over Boston University in the Beanpot tournament at Fenway Park last week, it hit me. As I sat stuffing my face with hot dogs, peanuts and dining hall spinach eggrolls and looking out over one of the great sanctums of the game, I realized what had been bothering me this season-spinach...
...cringe at the sound of the bats of college ball the same way a tenured Harvard professor would if she were told that she had to write a book review of an Ivana Trump novel. The artificiality of the bats was completely out of place in the tradition-rich park, and, upon further thought, seemed to be completely out of place in the game in general...
...knows what the very first true dinosaur looked like, but a young paleontologist named Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago has come closer than anyone else to finding out. In 1991, working with Argentine scientists in Ischigualasto Provincial Park at the edge of the Andes, he unearthed one of the oldest dinosaur fossils ever found. The animal, now known as Eoraptor, was a carnivore that dates from 230 million years ago. Like the much later Tyrannosaurus, the Eoraptor belonged to the saurischian, or lizard-hipped, category of dinosaurs. (The name refers to the arrangement of its pelvic bones...
...Jurassic Park: The making of Steven Spielberg's new film...
...hate also becomes harder to justify when applied to threats -- but not to acts -- of violence. One of those laws became an issue in a major Ohio case that grew out of a 1989 incident at a public campground near Columbus. A black camper, Jerry White, complained to a park ranger about loud music coming from the neighboring campsite of David Wyant, a white man. After the park ranger left, Wyant shouted threats to shoot the "niggers." He was eventually charged with and convicted of aggravated menacing, a misdemeanor. But because his threat fell under Ohio's "ethnic intimidation...