Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before the stadium can begin to go up, the site must be studied and cleaned, and a steam plant and offices must be moved...
HARTFORD, Conn.--Pollution and other problems with the proposed site for a football stadium are casting doubt on the plan that the New England Patriots will start playing in Hartford...
...nearly so. Some 80 million years after that late Cretaceous calamity--give or take 10 million years--its telltale remains have poignantly resurfaced. At a news conference in New York City last week, as well as in a report in Nature, scientists revealed that they had stumbled upon the site of the doomed dinosaur rookery during an expedition to remote badlands in central Argentina last November. Scattered over a square mile of parched Patagonian soil, they found the whole or shattered remains of thousands of grapefruit-size, fossilized dinosaur eggs--so many, in fact, that they couldn't avoid crushing...
...scientists, the site is a paleontological field of dreams. The eggs include dozens of embryos--the first to be unearthed anywhere in the southern hemisphere (and an exponential jump in the existing worldwide inventory of only five specimens). What's more, the beautifully preserved bits and pieces include tiny (about a tenth of an inch long), pencil-shaped teeth and mosaics of precise, miniature, lizard-like scales. Says American Museum paleontologist Luis Chiappe, another of the team's co-leaders: "Finding dinosaur embryos is rare enough. Finding the [soft, perishable] tissue that surrounded those bones is truly spectacular...
...they will learn still more about creatures that ruled the earth unchallenged for more than 200 million years, Chiappe and his colleagues plan to return to their dinosaurian mother lode next March. Says Coria: "This discovery opens large doors that had remained closed for years." To make sure the site won't fall prey to contemporary egg snatchers, the provincial government has declared it a protected "paleontological park" and is keeping it under full-time guard...