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Arriving at the convention as an unknown, he leaves a rising star, ready to win the Democrat’s nomination for the open U.S. Senate seat in Illinois...
...including Archer, who's one of Australia's best at classifying - all but instantly - what would look to most people like generic bone. "The finest specimen of a marsupial lion jaw that's ever been found," he declares. It seems to have belonged, he explains later, to a previously unknown, intermediate species of this most ferocious marsupial - a link between the cat-sized Priscileo and the leopard-sized Wakaleo - whose lineage coexisted with Aborigines before dying out 35,000 years ago. "Nearly 30 years of digging," says Lizard Cannell, the team's explosives expert, "and we're still finding firsts...
...near a bridge or something that might be a target for terrorists," says Carpenter, "it definitely is a concern." To lessen anxiety, most boxers use translucent containers so that people can see inside and know they're safe. Ultimately, however, the game is about the thrill of the unknown. In April the Connollys found themselves in the middle of a herd of wild boar near Tampa, Fla. Says Lori: "If not for letterboxing, we never would have seen something like that." --With reporting by Elizabeth Coady/Chicago and Sean Scully/Los Angeles
DIED. PAUL KLEBNIKOV, 41, editor of Forbes Russia and an investigative journalist; of gunshot wounds inflicted by an unknown assailant as he left his office in Moscow; the shooting had the hallmarks of a contract hit. A New Yorker of Russian descent, Klebnikov won notoriety in Russia in the late '90s for his writings on corruption and his coverage of controversial businessman and politician Boris Berezovsky...
...compare the protesters to Iraqi insurgents. "Terrorism does not mean they have to use explosives," he says. "They could even use martial arts." Scores of people have been arrested in the Highlands, the government says. Those who then performed public self-criticisms were released, while an unknown number await trial...