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...they were known to have had chest cavities large enough to hold huge hearts, like birds. Additional evidence is found in their migratory patterns. "There's no question that dinosaurs got as far north and as far south as there was land," says Bakker. "What should have been the tip-off is that the ones you find in the far north are the same ones you find in the south, so they could live in a wide range of climates. Also, I don't see any way dinosaurs could have survived up there unless they migrated, and migration takes energy...
Things got messy as early as the opening tip-off: Harvard center Debbie Flandermeyer tapped the balled to Frey, who barely got her hands on it before being knocked down by Cornell's Tarsh Harrison...
...Shaquille O'Neal. Magic, who with Larry Bird made the N.B.A.'s '80s a decade of dazzle, brought that era to an end with his (and Bird's) retirement. But pro basketball soon found a figure worthy of Johnson's number: O'Neal, a superstar force from the first tip-off, and spearhead of the league's most glamorous freshman class since 1979. O'Neal's team: the Orlando Magic, of course...
Details of the scandal remain murky. But this much seems clear: Perot insists that he received a tip-off that high-level Republicans were plotting to wiretap his office telephone last August -- even though he had pulled out of the presidential race in July. Acting largely on information provided by both Perot and Scott Barnes -- a shady storyteller with a prior conviction for tape-recording his telephone conversations with other people -- Oliver ("Buck") Revell, the head of the FBI office in Dallas, sent an undercover agent disguised as a cowboy to meet with James Oberwetter, state chairman of the Bush...
...that at least a third of HIV-infected people develop a fever or a severe sore throat within a few weeks to months after first exposure. Such signs, which usually clear up on their own, can easily be misdiagnosed as a bad flu or mononucleosis. Researchers realized the tip-off would come when they tested the patients and found HIV instead of influenza viruses or other disease-causing agents. By hanging out in hospital emergency rooms and talking to colleagues, the researchers identified seven young homosexual men -- three in Alabama, four in California -- suffering from a primary HIV infection...