Word: troves
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...million and a slew of Oscars. Universal Studios Florida, the company's pricey rival to Walt Disney World, is virtually a Spielberg shrine, with major rides celebrating E.T., Back to the Future and Jaws. But without its main man, Universal is a crippled company. The rest of its movie trove is a dog named Beethoven and some other dogs named Dr. Giggles, Splitting Heirs and Havana...
...MUCH CAN IT TAKE? O.J. Simpson's reeling defense suffered another one-two punch: Judge Lance Ito today rejected its motion to throw out evidence taken from Simpson's Ford Bronco during police searches. The Bronco is a virtual treasure trove for the prosecution: Police found bloodstains on its door and interior, an order slip for two knives, a shovel that investigators believe may have been used to bury evidence, and golf shoes they want to compare with shoe prints at the murder scene...
This intelligence trove was provided by General Dmitri Polyakov, a barrel- chested weekend carpenter and collector of fine shotguns who served as a top officer of the Soviet military intelligence agency, the GRU. Polyakov began working for U.S. intelligence in 1961, and during the succeeding decades % he passed increasingly precious secrets, at blood-chilling personal risk. In Moscow he brazenly stole from the GRU stockroom a special kind of self- destructing film that he used to photograph secret documents, as well as hollow, fake stones in which to conceal the film in meadows for pickup by U.S. spies. To signal...
...dense forest, scientists find a trove of ancient creatures...
...joint expedition of scientists from the American Museum of Natural History and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences unveiled a trove of fossil remains uncovered last summer in the Gobi Desert. Among the scores of fossils are specimens of a turkey-size creature that resembled both dinosaurs and birds. Perhaps even more important was the discovery of 140 skulls of small mammals that lived 80 million years ago. The mammal finds may provide clues to the evolutionary events that allowed mammals to flourish as the dinosaurs disappeared...