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...With only their hairless skin to protect them, the warm-blooded dinosaurs were highly vulnerable to sharp drops in temperature. And according to some geological evidence, a global chill may have set in at the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs were still flourishing. Too large to burrow into the earth and lacking other means of getting out of the cold, says Bakker, the big reptiles simply died of overexposure...
...unreal sense of well-being extended even to a dark, sandbagged burrow on the town's south side where ARVN Major, Tran Ai Quoc, had set up a command post. As his battery of radios crackled in the background, Quoc reported that the situation around the town was quiet. It had better be. His retinue of lieutenants and enlisted men had been drinking Ba Muoi Ba brand beer and De Kuyper crème de menthe. An attack then would have been a disaster...
...dustup soon spread to the U.S. Office of Pipeline Safety in Washington, which dutifully sent an investigator to Collinsville. Though the agent found nothing amiss. Baker remains unconvinced. He has now challenged pipeline companies' right to burrow on private property, a move that could have national repercussions for the pipeline industry. If the local hearings go against him, Baker says he will appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. His obstinacy has not come cheap; legal costs already have reached nearly $10,000; a Supreme Court appeal could run $3,000 to $5,000 more. But Baker intends...
...care how you do it, I want the harassment of the Soviet diplomats in this city stopped!" Well, said the Lindsay man, the first call would go to the police commissioner. The second would go from the commissioner to his legal counsel. The counsel would quickly burrow into lawbooks to see if there might not be some handy old statutes tucked away. Meanwhile the commissioner would send the word down: "Smother them." In all likelihood, the department would put so many cops on the street in and around the Russians that the J.D.L. would quickly become the victims of harassment...
...young Samuel Beckett of the 1930s. The name was apt. Oblomov is the hero of a 19th century Russian novel by Goncharov, and he is famed for his inability to get out of bed. The mere thought of taking any action or making any decision makes him burrow deeper under the covers in a paroxysm of inertia. Miss Guggenheim's "Oblomov'' told her that "ever since his birth he had retained a terrible memory of life in his mother's womb. He was constantly suffering from this and had awful crises, when he felt...