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Three businesses fit this category: Emily Rose women's clothing has stood there for 58 years, Irving's Shoes for 75 and Surman's Men's Wear for 80, according to a press release sent out by Save Central Square...
...current consensus is that dinosaurs were not strictly ectothermic but fell short of full-fledged endothermy. "The problem," notes Michael Brett- Surman of the Smithsonian Institution, "is that there is no such thing as 'the dinosaur.' There were seven groups living 150 million years ago that started out as one thing and perhaps evolved into something else." Although Deinonychus, Velociraptor and other small, meat-eating bipeds may have been warm-blooded, Brett-Surman believes large predators like Tyrannosaurus rex, which went through three vastly different growth stages, may have been equipped with a variable metabolism...
...size individuals, averaging 12 ft. to 15 ft. in height, were probably somewhat less agile and may have traveled in packs. A full-grown, 40-ft.-long, eight-ton tyrannosaur must have slowed down even more, and may even have reverted to a solitary life-style. Says Brett-Surman: "They certainly wouldn't have turned somersaults across the landscape." As for the giant herbivores, which would have required hundreds of pounds of vegetation a day to sustain their enormous bulk, they might have had their own unique metabolism fueled by the heat given off by nonstop digestion...
...still a viable area if one is able tailor merchandise to the public at large," says Bud Carter, the manager of Surman's, a menswear store claiming to be the oldest business in the area...
...Surman's did not increase its inventory for the holiday season. "We didn't have any indication that business would be stronger," says Carter, adding that he was more concerned with the strength of the overall economy than with subway renovations...