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...adopting" three eggs he finds in an ice cave. They hatch and are revealed to each be a T. rex, whose mother soon finds and retrieves them in a neat mouthful, which includes Sid. The sloth's absence hardly seems like reason to take on the dinosaurs. Their possum friends sum it up nicely with this exchange: "I don't even like Sid." "Who does? He's an idiot." Nonetheless, they all go after...
...actual savage, a young Tasmanian Aborigine named Mathinna. Earlier in his career, Franklin and his wife had adopted Mathinna, an orphan, and then tried to make her into a good Victorian girl. But she ends up a lost plaything, at home nowhere, a novelty like her own pet albino possum, batted this way and that by the rich white people who dote on her and then discard her. Mathinna is Flanagan's most successful creation, and his saddest. She's a savage ruined by the desires of the cultured English - an irony lost on everyone but the reader...
...Crimson. In the fourth period, senior midfielder Nick Sapia tallied his first goal of the game, and Cohen notched number four and five for the game to complete the run. Cohen’s fifth goal, scored with 9:21 left in the contest, came after playing possum with the Crusader defense. Holding the ball behind the Holy Cross goal, Cohen waited until a defender would come out to challenge him. After a dozen seconds of inaction, a defender finally came, but Cohen simply ran past him and slipped a low shot into the net. The Crusaders scored once...
...With absorbing detail and first-hand accounts, Boyce shows that while life in this new world was hard, it was, for many, better than what they'd left behind. One convict wrote of being "unaccountably indifferent" to the notion of returning home. Hunters, bushrangers and soldiers wore kangaroo and possum skins and copied the Aborigines' moccasins, trying native foods and Aboriginal bush-burning techniques. Within two years of settlement, convicts were living in the bush year-round. Ejected from their homeland before the Industrial Revolution, they had simple expectations and were content to survive as nomadic hunters and shepherds. Nowhere...
...Stassen knew that wearing a bronzed possum was safer than hitting the stump with a naked scalp. Why? For the same reason, perhaps, that bald men are icons of evil in the movies, from Lex Luthor to Dr. Evil to Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life. Sometime in our political history, baldness was downgraded from Churchillian to ... Dr. Phil...