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Paleontologists, of course, tend to relish arguing about bones as much as digging them up. But after much debate, most now agree that a Brontosaurus head should not be the familiar, friendly snub-nosed skull of children's books and TV's Flintstones, but rather a much more elongated, toothy and reptilian-looking skull. Yale's correction, to be sure, is a little tardy. Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum and the Field Museum in Chicago have already changed their Brontosaurus heads. What makes the Peabody's fossil surgery so interesting is that the original foul...
...week another $10,000 was tacked on." Land on the west side now goes for an astonishing $200,000 an acre, even as much as $250,000 if it's road-front, and houses in town are bringing record six-figure prices. "Danbury," says Dyer with unabashed relish, "is on the move...
...domestic program cuts, a group of Democratic Senators ate the kind of school lunch that would be allowable under new minimum standards proposed by the Agriculture Department-a 1.5-oz. beef and soybean patty, one slice of bread, six french fries, six ounces of milk, and catsup and relish as vegetables. Said Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "This is absolutely obscene." Shortly afterward, Stockman announced that the new proposals would be withdrawn. Said he: "It was a bureaucratic goof...
...many have already doubled the charge for reduced-price meals to 400. To help cafeterias cope, the Department of Agriculture cooked up new nutritional guidelines that would provide schoolchildren, for example, with 6 oz. of milk instead of 8 oz., and, absurdly, would allow schools to consider ketchup and relish as vegetables...
...Brown, who is expected to run for the U.S. Senate next year, clearly did not relish the idea of offending his environmentalist constituency. At midweek he ignored the recommendation of his own Medfly advisory committee and refused to allow aerial spraying. Brown explained that he did not want Californians "waking up in the middle of the night to those helicopters spraying the garden, the street light, the roof, the child's bicycle, the swimming pool and everything else...