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SOLD. SUE, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever recovered, to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; at an auction in New York City. The winning bid of $8.4 million was financed partly by McDonald's and Disney. DIED. JEROME LEMELSON, 74, prolific inventor whose more than 500 patents include the bar-code scanning technology used by stores and factories around the world; of liver cancer; in Los Angeles. He spent years in legal battles with corporations over his patents, won millions in settlements, and used the money to endow a $500,000 annual prize for inventors...
...Skeleton broke a tackle, crossed the field and ran undisturbed into the end zone...
...Skeleton 51 pass from Linden (Glampaola kick...
Larson then wrote Williams a check for $5,000 and shipped the bones to institute headquarters in Hill City, S.D., where he planned to catalog, prepare, mount and display the magnificent skeleton. Larson started giving public lectures and publishing popular articles on Sue. Tourists began streaming...
Things may be getting a little too exciting out in the field. Two weeks ago, FBI agents thwarted Montana ranchers who were going after a T. rex skeleton with a tractor, presumably to remove it from federal land and sell it on the open market. And the public's hunger for fossils isn't limited to dinosaurs. Wyatt recently brokered the sale, for $2,400, of some bits of fossilized Cro-Magnon man advertised over his fossilnet.com Website--a sale that was condemned by anthropologists...