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...Museum of Comparative Zoology is chock-full of snakeskins, phosphorescent butterflies and stuffed, gap-toothed hippos. It also features the fossilized skeleton of a giant sloth, a prehistoric creature that--like some college students today--slept 22 hours a day and woke only to eat. And for a positively thrilling afternoon you can't miss "Songs of the Spring Warblers," recorded bird-songs accessible by the touch of a button...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Learning Outside the Harvard Classroom | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...disappearance sparked an intense year-long search that spanned four New England states and spawned a vast array of highly-publicized rumors as to her whereabouts. The discovery of the Hamilton body was first reported in The Boston Herald, which reported yesterday that the skeleton had been linked to Webster...

Author: By E.k. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: Possible Webster Link Found | 4/28/1990 | See Source »

...this regard, both Yale and Harvard offer a skeleton on which you hang marvellous pieces of intellectual experiences for the rest of your life. They give you a framework. Of course, there are differences between the two colleges, and they are wonderful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advice to Pre-Frosh From Gopher, Guhan . . . . . . Guides and Geeks-- Come Aboard ! | 4/19/1990 | See Source »

...vastly overextended IOS had fallen victim to the bear market of 1970. So had Cornfeld, who gave up his castles in France and Switzerland, as well as his jet and Rolls-Royce. Today he is dealing real estate in Europe, his celebrated harem now "down to sort of a skeleton crew of three or four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Pigs Always Get Slaughtered | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Future doctors in Birmingham get a leg up by studying a bicycling skeleton. Aspiring engineers in Oak Ridge, Tenn., explore a model coal mine. In New York City, make-believe media moguls produce their own sitcoms in a TV studio. A decade ago, it would have been hard to find such innovative exhibits in children's museums. For the most part, those museums were pint-size versions of adult institutions, where kids were expected to keep their mouths shut and their hands in their pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Children's Museums Get a New Look | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

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