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...stage will come to life in mere hours, but it already shows hints of 15th-century England. Cocoa-shell mulch that crunches underfoot covers the stage floor. Three huge rocks--actually large chunks of styrofoam--lie on a large platform beside the main part of the stage. A curved and seemingly rickety ramp meanders its way from a height of about 10 feet down to the stage...
...doomed dinosaur rookery during an expedition to remote badlands in central Argentina last November. Scattered over a square mile of parched Patagonian soil, they found the whole or shattered remains of thousands of grapefruit-size, fossilized dinosaur eggs--so many, in fact, that they couldn't avoid crushing them underfoot or with the wheels of their cars. "We were picking up eggs all over the place," says the American Museum of Natural History's Lowell Dingus, a geologist who is a leader of the expedition...
According to a chart distributed by the farm, MacIntosh apples ripen by Sept. 1. Fallen and discarded apples crunched underfoot by last weekend...
...friends in the streets of Tehran, their presence appears to be infuriating Iran's conservatives. When the Stars and Stripes drew enthusiastic cheers at the opening ceremony of an international wrestling tourney, a conservative cleric urged parliament to reject the presence of the flag "which we used to trample underfoot only last year," and led legislators in the ritual chant of "Death to America...
...George's "show about nothing"; the show in which Susan's father is revealed to be John Cheever's lover; The Master of My Domain episode; The Virgin and The Bubble Boy shows. A mix of high and low, of the self-referential and the hip, of things underfoot and out of left field...