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...tendency to pursue that goal fanatically. Some people find his hyperstrenuous approach to be overbearing and have dropped out of active participation. There are rumored to be internal problems between Harrison and some of his players, although none of these have been documented. Nevertheless, there is unquestionably some skeleton in the closet in the basketball program as each of the last two years' teams has fallen short of pre-season expectations...
...Jensen's discovery has not been confirmed by other specialists, but he thinks that he can provide even more persuasive evidence. By probing further in the Colorado quarry-"a paleontologist's paradise," he says-Jensen hopes eventually to recover enough bones to reconstruct the entire skeleton of the prehistoric monster...
...feet of Wakefield's find "demonstrate," he says, "a stage intermediate between the backward paddle of the ancestral fish and the forward-pointing foot of a four-limbed animal." To help settle that old scientific question, Wakefield is hopeful of locating an even bigger prize: a complete fossil skeleton of the missing amphibian...
...wary watch on the tent city erected by youthful environmentalists at the abandoned airport of Skarpnäck, but the violent demonstrations the police feared never came. Instead, the students put on gentle "eco-skits" to dramatize "eco-catastrophes." In one, for example, a girl painted as a skeleton and accompanied by drums and cymbals danced a warning about the radioactive fallout from French nuclear-bomb tests in the Pacific. Total damage to property caused by such activities: one broken window...
...sized piece of papyrus containing only 17 letters, which cut vertically across five lines of text. His technique for identifying it and other fragments-a standard method that Dead Sea Scroll scholars have used to identify an Exodus fragment, among others-is therefore the rough equivalent of reconstructing prehistoric skeleton from a single thigh bone...