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With only a pair of brand-new Boeing 737s sporting brightly colored orange-and-green tail fins, Pro Air Inc. is America's newest passenger airline. Launched in Detroit's City Airport last July by former Boeing lawyer Kevin Stamper, Pro Air offers fares as much as 85% less than giant Northwest Airlines' on comparable routes. Passengers flocked to Pro Air, but Northwest, which dominates traffic in Detroit, was not about to let Pro Air grab share. Northwest quickly cut prices and added seats to Pro Air destinations, including Baltimore, Md.; Newark, N.J.; and Indianapolis, Ind. Under this assault...
...trophy of the hunt. Instead, the return of J.J. the whale to the sea, after 15 months of care by animal-rescue workers at nearby Sea World, was a triumph of both compassion and commercialism. "J.J. is so intensely marketed, they fell just short of stamping the whale's tail with a Sea World logo," a sardonic Conifer crewman observed...
...terrible lizards' reign, not a single dinosaur bone had ever been found there. As far as amateur paleontologist Giovanni Todesco knew, that dismal record was still intact even after he unearthed a 9-in.-long specimen about a decade ago. The nearly complete skeleton, missing only its tail and the lower part of its legs, looked as if it belonged to a bird, and that's what Todesco assumed...
That fact alone made the discovery important. But on closer examination, scientists found something even more remarkable: not only had the mini-dino's bones survived (save those of the lower legs and tail), but so, evidently, had some of the tissues inside. As described in the current issue of the journal Nature, the dinosaur, almost certainly a baby, has significant amounts of its intestines and liver still intact, along with muscles and the cartilage that once housed its windpipe--"details of soft anatomy never seen previously in any dinosaur," write Italian paleontologists Cristiano Dal Sasso and Marco Signore...
...Shady licensing. Even Ted Kennedy and Strom Thurmond got in on the act. But they found themselves outpaced by Barksdale, a great showman. "Gentlemen, that's a monopoly," said the Netscape chief after asking for a show of hands from audience members with Windows 95. "We're letting the tail wag the dog here," he added...