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...Tianyu is not short on natural history. In one hall alone, 480 dinosaur fossils are randomly placed in glass cases or left in the open air around a room the size of a basketball court, along with Triassic fish and other more recent fossils, primarily from different parts of China. "We are the world's number one," says Zheng Xiaoting, director and keeper of the Tianyu (which means "universe" in Chinese) Natural History Museum's collection of thousands of dinosaur fossils. Though no official records of the collection's number exist, several Chinese paleontologists echo Zheng's claim that Tianyu...
...half altar boy - and a face that reads as clean-shaven even with his careful stubble. And Diesel and M-Rod are a perfect pair. She showed off her muscular arms in Girlfight nearly a decade before America fixated on Michelle Obama's pythons, while Diesel has biceps the size of Barack Obama's governing challenges...
...last sector, and by the size of its companies by far the largest, is energy. Exxon's (XOM) market cap is $347 billion. That may be more than the top ten banks in America combined. It is more than the total for Microsoft and Cisco with some to spare. As a group, Exxon, BP (BP), and Conoco (COP) have not done well during the rally. The simpleton's answer as to why that is true is that the price of oil is too low and that oil stocks trade with the price of oil. Since oil firms have complex structures...
...they had the prototype for their inhaler (“Guard it with your life!” Zhou remembers Kamler warning.).Le Whif, simply put, is an inhaler that contains about a gram’s worth of extremely tiny particles of chocolate. The holder is about the size and shape of a cigar, with colored tips that indicate the specific flavor inside. At one end of the plastic tube is a compartment that contains thousands of chocolate bits—small enough to aerosolize, large enough to linger in your mouth and not in your lungs...
...mayor wanted to have other faces, other names, and other perspectives,” Glavin said, explaining why the fund is not simply governed by the Task Force. The program aims to distribute $100,000 each year for the next five years in grants ranging in size from $100 to $25,000. Unused money from each year will be remain in the Fund for distribution in subsequent years. “I’m hoping the partnership fund will reach down into levels where people don’t have that much organization, but still provide valuable services...