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...developing a burgeoning undergrad fan base. The latest episode of the Harvard sitcom, which claims to be “redefining America’s soap opera,” features rule-breaking romance and sinisterly flirtatious freshmen. But will the back-stabbing, scandals, and sexscapades of the Harvardian specimen ever rival the creme de la creme of self-indulgent, mindless programming—that is, The OC? FM investigates...
...accept and understand that chastity among top-rank British royals is rarer than literacy among American presidents. What troubles me, however, is Prince Charles' flagrant disregard for natural law - the law of the jungle, not the law of heaven - in spurning a very young, attractive woman for a plainer specimen one year his senior, to whom he's stayed faithful, by all appearances, until this very day. God may or may not approve of these decisions, but they go against everything Darwin ever stood...
...dubbed Repenomamus giganticus, demolishes the notion that most dinosaur-age mammals were never larger than squirrels. The animal, which lived some 130 million years ago, had the dimensions of a midsize dog or large badger--by far the biggest dinosaur-age mammal ever found. And the second, a new specimen of a previously discovered species called Repenomamus robustus, refutes the notion that it was always the mammals that got eaten. Inside the skeleton where the animal's stomach would have been are the fossilized remains of a baby dino. "This discovery was the chance of a lifetime," says Jin Meng...
...hand-stretched burek, a slightly dense pastry stuffed with ground beef and potatoes, evokes the Ottoman past of the region despite being somewhat disappointing to anyone who has tasted the authentic article. The meat in this specimen is not crumbly enough, the onions are too meek, it is too thick and lacking in diameter. For any epicure who hasn’t ventured east of Italy or south of Austria, however, this will do the trick, as it apparently does for the seemingly less-picky emigrants who occupied the lounge on our visit...
Pollack doesn’t even have leave his office to find specimen to study. Dozens of head lice evaluation request forms flow into his office daily. Worried locals download the form from the school’s website and tape on samples of what they think might be head lice for analysis. But less than half actually are—the vast majority of samples are debris, dandruff and insect appendages mistaken for the tiny parasite...