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...movie Jurassic Park, dinosaur fossils are found by a jet-setting paleontologist with a millionaire benefactor and a glamorous female assistant. In real life the relics are more often discovered by the likes of Stan Sacrison, 37, a plumber and electrician who likes to wander around sheep ranches near his home in Buffalo, South Dakota, looking for prehistoric bones. Last May, while scrambling up the side of a butte, he noticed an unusually large pelvic bone and three sun-bleached vertebrae poking out of the siltstone. "I could tell right away it was a Tyrannosaurus rex, because they're really...
...Doctors have devised an in utero operation for treating myelomeningocele, a birth defect in which the spinal cord protrudes from the spine, leading to paralysis and incontinence. The operation, which uses a skin graft to patch the spine, has been tested successfully in sheep...
From Harvard Square, take the Red line inbound and get off at Park Street. There, you will find Boston Common, a 48-acre green oasis of fountains, monuments and relaxed Bostonians. And other tourists. Bought by the city in 1634 as pasture land for cows, goats and sheep--and later used as a military training ground--the Common is the oldest public park in the nation...
...Indian Health Service and the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have mounted a frantic investigation to determine the cause of the illness. Health workers have fanned out across the reservation, taking samples of food, water and soil, as well as combing through the coats of cows, sheep and dogs for hair, ticks, fleas and fecal matter. "We've excluded the usual bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections," says Dr. Ron Voorhees, a New Mexico state epidemiologist. Ruled out are anthrax, plague and Legionnaires' disease, as well as insecticides and other toxins. Two bacteria are among the suspects: Mycoplasma fermentans...
...Office of Human Resources, the centerpiece of the University's decentralized network of human resources offices which spans Harvard from the Divinity School to the Longwood Medical Area, has long been a black sheep in the Holyoke Center bureaucracy...