Word: robert
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Cabot House's physical setup--multiple buildings in the midst of a neighborhood--poses potential security problems, said Senior Tutor Robert H. Neugeboren...
With a thong in his heart, an otherwise respectable lawyer named Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) drops into a store to buy his wife some sexy lingerie for Christmas. There he bumps into--or rather is bumped into by--an old, if mysteriously agitated, acquaintance. Next thing he knows, he's an Enemy of the State--his house, his marriage, his job, all trashed by powerful, shadowy forces. There being no limit to their depravity, they even invalidate his credit cards...
...embryos lay to rest suspicions voiced by paleontological gadfly Robert Bakker that sauropods gave birth to live young--though the grinding wear patterns on the embryonic teeth hint that the little dinos probably did break out of their shells voraciously hungry. Under a microscope, the postage stamp-size patches of fossilized embryonic skin--the first ever found--turned out to have scales arrayed in distinctive patterns (rosettes, parallel rows) similar to the arrangement of the small bony plates on the backs of titanosaurs. This could mean, says Chiappe, that like modern crocodiles, the young sauropods grew body armor as they...
Following The Birthday Boys, a story about Robert Falcon Scott's deadly trek to the South Pole, and Every Man for Himself, about the sinking of the Titanic, Master Georgie completes an ambitious trilogy of novels that dissect great examples of human folly. But to say that Bainbridge--who is perhaps one of the best living novelists Americans don't know much about, and whose work, including this latest novel, has been shortlisted five times for the prestigious Booker Prize--writes historical fiction is like saying that Jane Austen wrote domestic comedies. These three novels, each around a mere...
...past few years the law of diminishing returns has certainly applied to NASA. But not to worry. To rejuvenate a failing mission, the agency is granting larks to aging Senators in hope of securing future budget approvals. The Glenn trip is much ado about politics. ROBERT LUCE North Muskegon, Mich...