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...After exploring the unlikable, self-tortured inhabitants of his hometown of Omaha in Citizen Ruth, Election and About Schmidt, Payne, 43, has moved on to unlikable, self-tortured Californians. In his latest film, Sideways, opening Friday, the director and his longtime writing partner Jim Taylor turned a novel by Rex Pickett into a quirky movie about a failed writer and a C-list actor who go on a weeklong wine-tasting bachelor party through the vineyards near Santa Barbara. Paul Giamatti plays the novelist, who is deeply in love with wine and deeply in hatred with the rest...
Another team, meanwhile, recently published an analysis showing that Tyrannosaurus rex grew (and thus metabolized) at an impressively fast rate--suggesting that it might have been warm-blooded like birds. "There's now so much material [linking dinosaurs and birds] that I can't imagine anybody being able to ignore it," says paleontologist Luis Chiappe of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County...
...Those filaments, which are about three-quarters of an inch long and branched like modern feathers, are the first direct evidence that tyrannosaurs sported plumage. Because Dilong paradoxus is one of the earliest tyrannosaurs, Norell and his colleagues infer that its larger, more advanced relatives, including T. rex, must have had feathers for at least part of their life span...
...growth analysis Norell and a group of American and Canadian scientists published in Nature in August. By looking at growth lines--skeletal marks, analogous to tree rings, that show how much bigger a dinosaur got from year to year--the scientists were able to estimate that T. rex packed on weight at a blistering pace, sometimes as much as 5 lbs. a day. That also supports the idea of warm-bloodedness, which means baby T. rex had to have a way to retain body heat. As the dinosaur shot toward adulthood, however, it would have developed the opposite problem: shedding...
...alarm is spreading that the natural bounty on which the culture is built is at risk. At Point Hope, a bowhead-whaling village that dates from 600 B.C., flooding seawater threatens the airport runway and a seven-mile evacuation road. "During storms, people begin to panic," says town official Rex Rock. In the Pribilof Islands, villagers blame global warming along with industrial contaminants for the decline of 20 species, ranging from kelp to sea lion. In Barrow, capital of the oil-rich North Slope Borough, sandbags and dredging haven't protected $500 million in infrastructure. "We are at a crossroads...