Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deep into a shallow lagoon. Brando dropped into the water floating on his back; I did likewise. A brilliant rainbow arched over the island. Above us were hundreds of wheeling birds and an early halfmoon. Our bodies turned slowly in the warm water until we faced the lowering sun. Brando smiled impishly. "Just a typical day's end in paradise," he said...
...label now, and it shows, not very flatteringly. The graphics on the jacket of The Sound in Your Mind (Lone Star) are about the worst I've seen, but it has enough good music on the inside to make it worth your while. "That Lucky Old Sun" and a medley of three of his old hits are the high points. Willie still gets sentimental and ponderous at times, as in "The Healing Hands of Time" but here's nothing as awful as his "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain", thank...
Dinosaurs are generally regarded as overgrown lizards-pea-brained, coldblooded creatures that spent most of their lives hulking sluggishly in the sun. This image is unfair, argues Adrian Des mond, 28, an English-born doctoral candidate at Harvard University. Desmond, who studied vertebrate paleontology at London University, has spent the past several years reviewing the latest research on the huge creatures that ruled the earth for 140 million years. In a new book titled The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs (Dial Press; $12.95), he contends that some dinosaurs and their kin were warm-blooded, complex and far more intelligent than some...
...Cold. Desmond bases his argument on a comparison of dinosaurs and modern-day reptiles like the lizard. Cold-blooded animals, whose bodies are small by comparison with most mammals, control their body temperatures by moving into or out of the sun. If dinosaurs were coldblooded, maintains Desmond, they would not have been able to do this because of their size (a brontosaur, for example, weighed around 30 tons); a dinosaur whose body temperature dropped just one degree below the warmth necessary for it to be active would have to bask in the sun for at least several hours to bring...
...Pulitzer gold medal is something of a personal vindication for Fanning, who has constantly advocated investigative reporting by her staff. The daughter of a Joliet, 111., banker, she came to Alaska with her three children in 1965 after divorcing Marshall Field IV, owner of the Chicago Daily News and Sun-Times. In 1966 she married Lawrence Fanning, a Field editor, but instead of settling in Chicago they stayed in Anchorage and bought the Daily News for $450,000. Under Kay Fanning's guidance, the paper has been fighting to reverse a long circulation slide and last year signed...