Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broke and trying to send his children through college, but was heir to his uncle's modest fortune. The uncle, amiably gaga and perversely vigorous, lived on and on, through his 80s, into his 90s. His round-the-clock medical care ate through the money. My friend gnashed his teeth and lived on baked beans. How he longed to put in a call to Dr. Jack...
...pestilence were limited to classes and dining. But no. The leeches suck our blood right out of our veins. We all know who they are: those pesky roommates' boyfriends and girlfriends who show up in their underwear at three in the morning, sleep in our rooms, brush their teeth in our sinks, even shower in our bathrooms (and don't even think they aren't using our shampoo). We at Dartboard urge all upstanding Harvard men and women: Do not tolerate this breach of community! Gong them out the door, back to their real rooms, where they belong...
...discovery is that it solves a lingering puzzle. Similar spherical eggs have been recovered elsewhere in South America as well as in Europe, Africa, India and China, but no one could tell for sure what sort of dinosaur laid them. After examining the bones and distinctively shaped teeth of the fragmented embryos, some of which were close to hatching when they died, the researchers firmly identified them as a type of sauropod, kin to the familiar Brontosaurus (more accurately known as Apatosaurus) of comic-book fame. Had they survived, they would have been about 15 in. long at birth--"about...
...embryos lay to rest suspicions voiced by paleontological gadfly Robert Bakker that sauropods gave birth to live young--though the grinding wear patterns on the embryonic teeth hint that the little dinos probably did break out of their shells voraciously hungry. Under a microscope, the postage stamp-size patches of fossilized embryonic skin--the first ever found--turned out to have scales arrayed in distinctive patterns (rosettes, parallel rows) similar to the arrangement of the small bony plates on the backs of titanosaurs. This could mean, says Chiappe, that like modern crocodiles, the young sauropods grew body armor as they...
...which stunned calm (we're going to get away with this thing) and hysteria (no, we're not) alternate among the well-played accidental criminals. We do find points of identification with them. And heaven knows, some of us are fed up to the teeth with movies glossily restating humane sentiments. Finally, though, Berg's relentless, youthfully enthusiastic assault on conventional pieties grows tiresome. And we begin to choke on laughter that was from the outset pretty dubious...