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...currently Tyrannosaurus-less) Smithsonian, for example, will probably have to scrape up at least $1 million, and possibly more, to get this irreplaceable specimen--which is only partly mineralized and so offers scientists a rare chance to study actual dinosaur-bone tissue. "This will open the floodgates," says Don Wolberg, executive director of special projects at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. "I think it's criminal to auction something like this...
...million-plus that Sue is expected to draw will undoubtedly seem fair to Williams, although scientists like the Academy of Natural Sciences' Wolberg fear it will send the costs of acquiring important fossils out of sight. In fact, another T. rex, known as Mr. Z Rex, is on the market for a staggering $12 million. The owners, says Jim Wyatt, a fossil dealer who is acting as broker, "based that price on the excitement generated by T. rexes and dinosaurs in general over the past few years...
...first game was as tough as trying to hit a Lee Smith fastball blinfolded with a toothpick. Rowning and Yale pitcher Amy Wolberg exchanged doughnuts for seven innings. The defensive plays were just as sparkling, as players were lunging and hustling for line drives and fly balls...
Harvard finally cracked Wolberg in the bottom of the eighth inning when Co-Captain Mary Baldauf led off with a single, catcher Nancy Prior sacrificed Bauldauf. over to second. Liz Crowley poked an opposite-field single that put runners at the corners with...
Micro-Art by Lewis R. Wolberg, 291 pages. Abrams. $25. A first-class attempt to prove visually that less is more. Photographer Wolberg offers a short history of microscopes, then dazzles the reader's retina with 220 amazing photographic enlargements of everything from the female sex organs of moss (blown up 300 times), to a virus (160,000 times its actual size) that greatly resembles an archipelago. The colors and textures are gorgeous, but at the price, they are a costly pleasure...
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