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...movie Jurassic Park, dinosaur fossils are found by a jet-setting paleontologist with a millionaire benefactor and a glamorous female assistant. In real life the relics are more often discovered by the likes of Stan Sacrison, 37, a plumber and electrician who likes to wander around sheep ranches near his home in Buffalo, South Dakota, looking for prehistoric bones. Last May, while scrambling up the side of a butte, he noticed an unusually large pelvic bone and three sun-bleached vertebrae poking out of the siltstone. "I could tell right away it was a Tyrannosaurus rex, because they're really...
...albertosaurs, sharp-toothed scavengers about half T. rex's size, fed on the carcass, leaving a few of their teeth behind. Within months a river overflowed its banks and swept the bones away, eventually covering them with a three-foot $ layer of silt, which preserved them for eternity--and Stan Sacrison...
...that hardly mattered: Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey had a plan and had been telling audiences that Clinton did not. The Arkansas Governor declared his plan to be "uniquely American" and promised to enact it in the first year of his administration. The tactic worked: campaign pollster Stan Greenberg noted later that once Clinton put his plan out, the issue went away...
...Blendon's assessment will hold only after the tangled complexities of the Clinton plan begin to sink into public consciousness. "There has never been a national debate over health care, and these terms are all new to the American people," says Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg. "We're going to have an extraordinary period of public education...
Citing a confidentiality agreement, Stanford and attorneys for both the sergeant and the University would not discuss the agreement this week. Police sources said the settlement, finalized this summer with MCAD, is worth close to $10,000 per year. Stan-ford made a little over $40,000 in fiscal year...