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...It seems??hard to believe, but it wasn't that long ago that the idea of birds evolving directly from dinosaurs seemed just a little flaky. Sure, they shared generally similar body plans--paleontologists have known that for more than a century--but that hardly constituted an airtight case. Over the past couple of decades, however, scientists have uncovered all sorts of detailed characteristics common to birds and dinosaurs: wishbones, swiveling wristbones and, most recently, proof that some dinosaurs sported feathers. There's behavioral evidence too. Some dinosaurs made nests and sat on them, and one four-winged, feathered...
...incited a wave of fury that culminated in the seizure of the U.S. embassy. (Some intelligence sources think that the Ayatullah genuinely feared the Shah might die of cancer before Khomeini could exact his revenge.) But Khomeini did not think through the consequences, and?implausible though it now seems???may actually be looking for a way out. According to this analysis, Khomeini recognizes that the wave of anarchy unloosed in Iran by the violent emotions of the confrontation with the U.S. is a threat to his dream of an Islamic republic, the establishment of which is his overriding goal...
...cathode-ray persona Frost seems a modest chap, he sometimes seems???in Churchillian parlance?to have much to be modest about. He is not an intellectual, a scholar or a wit, a raconteur or a connoisseur, a trained reporter, a facile writer or even a modest warbler. However, even his fiercest foes concede that Frost is an artful, intelligent questioner whose disarming manner often coaxes confidences from a subject who might simply dry up under more abrasive handling. On The David Frost Show, which ran for three years in the U.S. (it went...
...death of LaFollette improves Lenroot's chances. It improves regular Republican chances in the northwest?so it seems???unless the Democrats manage to come back to the lands which they have long abandoned...
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