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Take sauropods, for example, the four-legged, long-necked giants that flourished in the Jurassic, the middle period of the dinosaurs' reign, which lasted from 208 million to 144 million years ago. These largest of all dinosaurs include Brontosaurus (an out-of-favor name these days: call them Apatosaurus, or risk correction by a knowledgeable six-year-old). They evidently used their spoon-shaped and pencil-shaped teeth to bite off leaves and twigs, relying, like many modern birds, on gizzard stones to do the actual chewing. Horned dinosaurs like Triceratops, which lived toward the end of the dinosaur...
Some of us thought that the coming of electronic glasnost to the global village would bring a reign of sunshine in which the germs of atrocity would have trouble surviving. We were wrong. The germs can flourish in the light. How many divisions does CNN have...
...chance for the Maoist group to be included in a coalition government, though no one can predict what will happen after the 20,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force leaves. The Khmer Rouge, who were responsible for the death of at least a million Cambodians during their 1975-79 reign of terror, made clear they will not go quietly. Just two days after the U.N. vote, gunmen believed to belong to the Khmer Rouge massacred 33 ethnic Vietnamese in a floating village on Tonle Sap Lake. The attack and continued harassment of opposition political parties by the Vietnamese-installed Phnom Penh...
Props and effects keep a low profile. Slides conjure up a context for the action, permitting simple, impressionistic sets. This in turn gives full reign to the actors...
...League men's basketball has witnessed a passing of the torch: Pennsylvania finally toppled Princeton from its four-year reign as king...