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...Ancient Genes The premise of Jurassic Park -- that material from blood cells found in the thorax of a prehistoric fly might be cloned to re-create a living dinosaur -- was echoed eerily in the science journals. Not only did scientists extract bits of DNA from the bone marrow of a 65 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, but they also recovered intact DNA from an insect trapped in amber back in the Mesozoic era, 130 million years...
...South Korea nonetheless constitute a single nation. It is also a victory for Seoul, which has been pushing Pyongyang to agree to this for years. The two sides begin talks in the North Korean border town of Kaesong on Dec.7 to work out details. Gushed Korean Olympic Committee official Park In Kyo: "This is definitely going to have a positive influence in the Korean peninsula...
Harvard freshmen without friends at Yale won’t have to sleep on a park bench during this year’s Harvard-Yale weekend. While the upperclassmen Houses have always been paired with residential colleges at Yale, this year, for the first time, freshmen dorms will also be paired with upperclass Houses and their respective Yale sister colleges, according to Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67. Because Yale’s residential college system includes freshmen, Dingman said adding Harvard first years to the mix makes sense. Prior to the change, freshmen...
...performance, only one other runner on either side finished in the top thirty. Both ended the day’s race—which took place with temperatures in the mid-40s—in eighth at the Heptagonal championships, which were held this year at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. “Our finish was a disappointment for us,” fellow sophomore Sarah Bourne said. “We had hoped to do better, and, while there were some very good individual performances, others of us did not have very good races...
...when Mick Taylor begins riffing on Paul Hogan's line, "You call that a knife?" one senses Crocodile Dundee being buried forever in an unmarked grave. It's little surprise to learn that the director's next project, Rogue, is to be about a marauding crocodile in Kakadu National Park - Steve Irwin, watch your back. Already one can see Mclean setting a steely trap for unsuspecting audiences to slip into...