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...April 1913 the body of Mary Phagan, 13, strangled to death, was found in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. Leo Frank, the factory's manager, was arrested for the crime and, despite his protestations of innocence, convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Two years later, after his sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment by the Governor of Georgia, Frank was taken from his prison cell by persons unknown and lynched. Because Frank was Jewish, his case became a nationwide cause celebre for Jewish groups and political figures crusading against anti-Semitism...
Instead, some pencil-pushing, pencil-necked geek locked in a basement room at The Seattle Times is helping to determine who plays for the national championship by his computer program. And in a sick way, it's probably fairer. Florida State lost to North Carolina State 24-7 in Week Two and the voters forgave and forgot. Kansas State lost 36-33 Dec. 5 and it was screwed...
...dreams. The eggs include dozens of embryos--the first to be unearthed anywhere in the southern hemisphere (and an exponential jump in the existing worldwide inventory of only five specimens). What's more, the beautifully preserved bits and pieces include tiny (about a tenth of an inch long), pencil-shaped teeth and mosaics of precise, miniature, lizard-like scales. Says American Museum paleontologist Luis Chiappe, another of the team's co-leaders: "Finding dinosaur embryos is rare enough. Finding the [soft, perishable] tissue that surrounded those bones is truly spectacular...
...flick of Rick Sayre's keyboard tells you all you need to know about the future of animation. "We start with a pencil and a paintbrush," says Sayre, senior animation scientist for the digital studio Pixar. On his screen is a graceful line-and-pastel drawing of two ants gazing across an underground landscape, an early rendering from the much anticipated film A Bug's Life, which opens this week. "When we recruit artists," Sayre says, "we still look for people with great hands." Then he hits the return key, and up pops the finished shot, lush with color, aglow...
...Kemple says catching and correcting errorsposed an even greater challenge than the timeconstraint. Although Eraseable Bond paper alloweda typist to erase an error with a pencil eraser,the process of fixing typos was nonethelessdifficult...