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...Self-Promoter. This specimen masks his arrogance by feigning sincerity and the suggestion that he intends to clear up confusion through his immense wisdom. His real goal is to inform the class of how erudite he is. Recently, in my section for Foreign Cultures 82, “Modern Arabic Narratives,” a student responded to another student’s interpretation of a text. “If you’ve ever read this book in Arabic”—clearly The Self-Promoter had—“you would realize that?...
...Thesis-Writing Senior with Six Weeks Left to Complete His Thesis. Yes, I am being reflexive. If this specimen ever comes to class, he is usually wearing the same thing he wore the week before, his mouth is surrounded by cream cheese residue, and he doesn’t seem to know what is going on. He is quick to offer an excuse as to why he missed the previous two sections, keeps a stash of “signed” UHS sick notes in his book bag and is taking the class pass/fail...
...like the ash from the infamous eruption in Italy, it buried creatures alive wherever they were standing--or snoozing. This one was tiny: excluding its tail, it's about the size of a Rock Cornish hen. That some of its bones have not completely fused indicates that this particular specimen was not quite fully grown...
...addition, it's a new species, which Norell and co-discoverer Xing Xu of Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology named Mei long, from the Chinese for "soundly sleeping dragon." But the specimen, dating to between 128 million and 139 million years ago, is clearly an early troodontid, an evolutionary cousin of tyrannosaurs...
Field took the first shot and the Sheikh took the second, fatal shot. “A foreigner and sheikh killing a magnificent specimen together” is how Field sums up his experience. When Field asked for the boar as a specimen, however, the sheikh’s discomfort suggested a larger cultural divide between these...