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...were meat eaters, how did they evolve into herbivores -- a key to their ability to survive in a variety of environments? The arrangement of teeth and jaws was probably a major factor, and that may explain in part why dinosaurs were so successful overall. Weishampel is trying to correlate tooth design, patterns of tooth wear, the size of the mouth and other aspects of skull mechanics with the types of plants the dinosaurs might have munched. "You can get a rough feeling for how fibrous the material was that they ate, and whether they sheared, ground or pulped their food...
...still enough of a cultural touchstone to be of use to comedians when they need the punch line to a bosom joke. She might do a movie or a guest spot on Leno. But mostly, she's been a stately float in the Icon Parade -- the 50-tooth smile encased in antebellum shady-lady couture and a platinum hayloft of hair. Should we expect more of the only woman to have a theme park (Dollywood) named...
...Siberia. The researchers uncovered 29 fossilized teeth that range from 4,000 to 7,000 years of age. In a survival technique that has since been copied by human institutional giants, the prehistoric pachyderms adapted to their confined island circumstances by downsizing their bulk. Extrapolating from the small tooth size, scientists calculate that the mini- mammoths stood 6 ft. tall at the shoulder, compared with 10 ft. for their full-size counterparts. Still unclear: whether climatic changes or human hunters triggered their final, belated fall...
...contest this year. Pennsylvania (22.4 overall, 14.0 Ivy) is by far and away the best team in the Ancient Eight. "The Tigers (15.11 overall, 7-7 Ivy) have grown long in the tooth...
...BILL CLINTON WANTS HIS TOP OFFICIALS TO BE, IN Dwight Eisenhower's famous words, "clean as a hound's tooth," he'd better start handing out the toothpaste...