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Witnesses said he fell through a ladder hole and hit the second story landing directly below him before fracturing his skull on the sidewalk. He had stepped out onto his room's fire escape to watch comedian Billy Crystal receive an award on the steps of the Lampoon Castle...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lowell Sophomore Falls From Claverly Fire Escape | 9/17/1992 | See Source »

Dinosaur lore has it that Tyrannosaurus rex, the king of the giant lizards, was the meanest creature ever to roam the earth: 10 m (33 ft.) long with 15-cm (6-in.) teeth and a voracious appetite. But fossilized claw, skull and jaw bones found in a quarry in eastern Utah point to a dinosaur that, while smaller than Tyrannosaurus, was probably a whole lot nastier. Labeled the "Utahraptor" until a more suitable scientific name can be found, the 7-m (20-ft.), one-ton beast is the largest specimen ever seen of a variety of dinosaur known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now For Something Really Nasty | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...Issues chief John White, a Deputy Budget Director in the Carter Administration, is developing positions for Perot on the economy, crime prevention and foreign affairs. White has hired 12 young policy analysts to interview experts on various subjects, some of whom have been flown to the Dallas headquarters for skull sessions at the candidate's expense. "It's an enormous task," admits White. "We could be here a year and not get the job finished. Unlike a conventional campaign, we can't call up a staffer on the House Budget Committee and say, 'Give us all your stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dallas On The Line | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

...former Skull and Bones member and son of a millionaire had a hard time convincing me of his populist mentality. But Bush's message was popular because he was preying on the pop-culture image of Harvard as a 350-year-old conspiracy against the ordinary person. "You can always tell a Harvard man." read a sign on my Yale brother's door, "but you can't tell him much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Slice of Life | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...doctors broke their silence, reasserting publicly that they believe J.F.K. was shot by a lone gunman from the rear. Their belated postmortem report will not end the debate, but those who believe otherwise now have to contend with the detailed description of a "beveled" hole punched in Kennedy's skull that could have been made only by a bullet coming from above and behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not The Grassy Knoll? | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

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