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Forbes magazine recently dubbed Ippy and his ilk the "New Refugees." While the Irish might have fled the potato famines of years past, wealthy American citizens are now fleeing a homeland starved by excessive taxation...
...paleontologist Mark Norell of New York City's American Museum of Natural History found the nearly complete skeleton of a predatory-dinosaur embryo, the first ever discovered, fossilized just as it was about to hatch during the Cretaceous period, more than 70 million years ago. The embryo and its potato-size egg, found in a rocky nest along with at least eight other eggs, are from a kind of oviraptor, an ostrich-size cousin of both tyrannosaurs and velociraptors. And several aspects of the discovery make the parallels between dinosaurs and birds stronger than ever...
...family of genetically engineered foods continues to grow. The FDA declared five more genetically enhanced vegetables -- three tomatoes with longer shelf lives and a squash and potato that resist common crop pests -- safe for human consumption...
From rebellions to potato famines, Ireland is a place with a long history of hardship and an equally long tradition of singing about it. As a defining cultural activity, singing is for the Irish what baseball is for Americans or chess is for the Russians. Ireland's national symbol is a harp, the instrument used to accompany a singer, and the national genius, James Joyce, was probably more vain about his voice than his prose style...
...Harvard attendees discussed health care reform over sandwiches and potato chips with the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee...