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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the 200 mostly female attendees, who ranged in weight from chubby to barely making it out of the bus, even sat through all the speeches and chants at Palisades Park in Santa Monica, Calif. Ella Lou Wann, whose daughter Marilyn, 31, wore a FAT!SO? T shirt and made the crowd-pleasing observation that "life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks," handed out 150 ginger cookies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bulge And The Beautiful | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in New York City, which featured a symposium focusing on the ancient winged creatures known collectively as pterosaurs. Were flying giants such as Quetzalcoatlus carrion eaters, like outsize vultures, as researchers once proposed? Or were they--as Thomas Lehman, of Texas Tech University, and Wann Langston Jr., of the Texas Memorial Museum, convincingly argued last week--more like humongous storks, probing the lake bottoms for tasty tidbits and snaring them with their lancelike beak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AGE OF PTEROSAURS | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

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