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...some Radcliffe alumnae, the move to co-ed classes was a step backward, in many ways. cliffe, even in terms of library access. "We had one room not much larger than a telephone booth in Widener, and they brought books to us," she says. "We couldn't just wander around...
...Reno. A month into her job, Reno confronted a disaster she had done nothing to create. The drama in the Texas prairie began as she was still standing in the wings, mourning her mother and awaiting the Senate's confirmation. Reno grew up in the swamps where alligators still wander -- her mother used to wrestle them -- and for 15 years she was in charge of enforcing laws in a city where lawbreaking is a spectator sport. But nothing could have quite prepared her for the choices she faced that fateful week...
...scenario, but not today. An avalanche of new evidence -- from fossilized bones, dinosaur nests, eggs and even footprints, analyzed with such high-tech equipment as CAT scans and computers -- has completely transformed scientific thinking about dinosaurs. Triceratops and other herbivores were not necessarily dull-witted, nor did they wander around alone; they probably traveled in vast herds and went on annual migrations. They may have cared for their young, and perhaps cooperated with one another to protect them from predators. Predators too were social. All but the oldest and biggest tyrannosaurs traveled in packs and attacked like prowling wolves...
...Israel and the warning labels point out, drowsiness can be an unwanted side effect of these drugs. Israel cites several new prescription medications that act without causing the sufferer to wander into dreamland...
...insulting level of metaphor is sustained not only in the script but also in some of the direction. Men in large white spacesuits wander in and out during set changes, accompanied by billows of mechanical fog. These creatures are the exterminators sent by the government to ward off the plague of red spiders that is reported to be approaching the city. Later, a large red spider is lit and throbbing above carnival dancers in a comical dance scene that probably was meant to be erotic. These and other elaborate ploys, while potentially meaningful, are more likely to make you giggle...