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TUESDAY: NBC Reports. Producer Lucy Jarvis ("The Kremlin", "The Louvre") spent three months in mainland China as the guest of Chou En-Lai to produce this special on "The Forbidden City," the national art treasure-trove of the People's Republic. CH. 4. 10 p.m. Color...
...worked as a taxidermist, welder, carpenter and longshoreman before turning to paleontology. Last year, on a tip from two amateur rock collectors, Jensen began exploring what was once a prehistoric riverbed near the little farming and lumber town of Delta in western Colorado. By spring he had unearthed a trove of bones that included the remnants of a large carnivorous dinosaur, three prehistoric turtles, parts of ancient crocodiles and small, chicken-sized flying reptiles. But his really big find came only a few weeks ago, when he discovered the matching shoulder blades, pelvis and five vertebrae of what appeared...
...Heinrich K. Erben of Bonn University's Institute of Paleontology bases his theory on a treasure trove of dinosaur eggs unearthed near Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. So many fossilized egg fragments were found there that Erben concluded that dinosaurs had used the site as a regular nesting place for thousands of years. Using a scanning electron microscope, he determined that the average thickness of the eggshells in the lower or older layers ranged from 1.7 to 2.6 mm., while the shells in the younger layers were only about half as thick. Such fragile eggs could easily become...
Wrong Reasons. Some of the findings were surprising indeed. Although geologists had forecast that there would be a trove of heat-formed crystalline rocks on the Descartes region's Cayley Plains, most of what the astronauts and their cameras saw were fragments called breccias, which are forged together from still more ancient rocks. At the very least, that unexpected finding means that the Cayley Plains were formed, not simply by volcanic flows, but by far more complex geological processes. Said NASA Geochemist Robin Brett: "We went to the right place for the wrong reasons...
...Gold Rush, a treasure-trove of funnies from Charlie Chaplin. Mather House Dining Hall...