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...SMELL OF THE KILL Studies of skulls and braincases indicate that T. rex had a keen sense of smell, a key weapon in tracking prey. The dinosaur's nostrils have been repositioned as well: closer to the end of its snout rather than its eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: T. Rex Gets A Makeover | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...bottle was big enough to let him smell the goodies but small enough to keep him from reaching in with his tongue. He would hop around in circles, trying vainly to push his snout into the thing as it slid and spun away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinkers: What's The Big Idea? | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...bulls___--it's not worth anything." Far from burying the demons that had haunted him since childhood, the exercise brought him to "a level of maturity and of erotic intensity that I think The Cold Six Thousand shows. I couldn't have got there if I hadn't gone snout to snout with my mother's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: James Ellroy Confidential | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...which is owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner) likens even its finest men to man's best friend. Sex columnist Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) meets her lover Aidan--a shaggy, happy-go-lucky golden retriever of a guy--when his dog cheerfully buries his snout in her crotch. Lawyer Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), cohabiting with scruffy bartender Steve, agrees to buy a pooch with him, and it becomes a metaphor for their unworkable relationship. Husband-hunting Charlotte (Kristin Davis) learns to control her new fiance with a hand on the wrist: Roll over, boy! Then there's Carrie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex And The City: Waiting for Prince Charming | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...best procedure for jumping from a building into a Dumpster before noting, under "Be Aware," that "the Dumpster may be filled with bricks or other unfriendly materials." In the chapter describing how to wrestle free from an alligator, the authors explain that you should tap the creature on the snout "if its jaws are closed on something you want to remove (for example, a limb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help! Quicksand! | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

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