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What makes the "newest" Archaeopteryx fossil especially significant is that it may help resolve an old scientific argument about the evolution of birds. According to the more popular theory, birds are descended from small tree-dwelling reptiles that developed crude "wings," like those of the modern flying squirrel. They used those wings for gliding round their arboreal habitats and dodging foes. The other theory says that birds evolved from ground-dwelling reptiles that grew similar membranes, helping them to take increasingly longer leaps after insects and other fast-moving prey...
...athwart the body of Herod, in symbolic triumph. With the gift of Contini-Bona-cossi's St. Jerome, Florence will have one of the half-dozen finest small Bellinis to be seen anywhere in Europe. Every detail, from the folds of the saint's robe to the squirrel on a branch behind him, was imagined and recorded by Bellini as the concrete signs of God's grace investing the world. Bellini came 50 years before Titian, but 100 years before him Paolo Veneziano demonstrated to Venetians, in works like The Birth of St. Nicholas, that paintings...
...threatened base at Long Cheng. An enemy mortar position was giving his troops severe trouble, and counterbattery fire had failed to knock it out. Vang Pao, with U.S. Ambassador George Godley as a witness, sighted along the barrel of a 105-mm. howitzer as if it were a squirrel rifle and barked instructions. The first round was wide of the mark. So was the second. Using "Kentucky windage," Vang Pao made another adjustment. The third round scored a direct hit. Later, he knocked out an enemy machine-gun nest with the same tactic...
...overall merit of Applause is a sleek professionalism that neatly camouflages its shortcomings. The music and lyrics have the glistening utility of railroad tracks carrying the playgoer from station to station of the plot. The chorus numbers, staged by Director-Choreographer Ron Field, belong to the squirrel theory of dance. Everyone scampers, scampers, scampers, but with so much joie de vivre that animation almost qualifies as design. A perky, elfin-like charmer named Bonnie Franklin lends spirited vitality to the song-and-dance title number and is rightly rewarded with a storm of applause...
...RANDLETT Squirrel Island...