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...star announces. Is that a promise or a threat? Actually, she's gonna take you back to all the old familiar places: to clips of early Bette singing "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" as current Bette performs the same steps; to the mermaid chanteuse Dolores Delago, flapping her fin tail as she zips across the stage in a motorized wheelchair; to the '70s anthem "Pretty Legs and Great Big Knockers," its brass and sass intact; to reprises of the signature ballads "The Rose," "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and (the unnecessary but apparently mandatory) "From a Distance." These are signposts...
...ARCHAEOLOGY 150 million Age, in years, of a fossilized sea creature known as a pliosaur, discovered recently on the Arctic island chain of Svalbard, where at least 40 other fossils await excavation 15 Estimated size in meters (49 feet) of a pliosaur from nose to tail. Its jaws were large enough to chomp a small...
...terrorist who's just pulled off an assassination plot that killed dozens of high-ranking U.S. officials and a few hundred innocent bystanders. Now you're tearing through town in your getaway van with precious cargo in the back and a Secret Service agent on your tail. Would you hit the car breaks and risk being caught just to avoid running into a little girl on the highway...
...years about quitting New York City, an idea generally scuttled when residents realized that a lot of Manhattanites didn't know it was part of the club to begin with, and at least a few were confusing it with the little triangular island also named Staten at the southernmost tail of Argentina - which would at least explain why the ferry takes so long. Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley have similarly talked of seceding from greater Los Angeles, but the deal has repeatedly gotten hung up over merchandising rights...
Following on the tail of recent financial aid expansions by peer institutions like Harvard, Stanford University announced yesterday the largest increase ever in its undergraduate financial aid program. Stanford will no longer charge tuition to families with an annual combined income below $100,000. And like at Harvard and Yale, families earning less than $60,000 will not be expected to contribute to other educational expenses, including room and board. In 2006, Stanford announced that families earning less than $45,000 would be exempt from paying tuition. The new initiative also eliminates the need for student loans by lowering...