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...disease theory has gotten another boost, in the form of a book titled What Bugged the Dinosaurs, from the Princeton University Press. Authors George and Roberta Poinar (George is a zoologist at Oregon State University and a former World Health Organization consultant on infectious disease) specialize in ancient insects preserved in amber (a key plot element in the movie Jurassic Park) and also in fossilized dinosaur poop. Among other things in their lode, they've found ticks, nematodes, biting flies and all sorts of other nasties, including intestinal parasites, dating back to the Cretaceous period. From some of the insects...
...even as Season 5 damns the media, it finds some love for Gus Haynes (Clark Johnson), a sarcastic Sun city editor with an unkillable work ethic and a fine-tuned b.s. detector who, despite those qualities--or because of them--knows he's a dinosaur. Maybe the greatest hero on The Wire is Lester Freamon (Clarke Peters), an old-school detective who explains to a young colleague how tediously scouring documents to connect a politician to drug money is better than collaring gang members on the street: "A case like this, here, where you show who gets paid behind...
...disorganization and generally uninspired feel of the album. As Sigel explains on “Hustlas, Haze and Highways,” “Lookin’ for a nigga like Sig’ / Won’t find ‘em / I’m a dinosaur.” And like those prehistoric beasts, Beanie proves that he lacks the intelligence and refinement to compete with many of his contemporaries, or even to make just one solid, cohesive record. —Reviewer Joshua J. Kearney can be reached at kearney@fas.harvard.edu...
...received dangerous doses of radiation, and 500 tons of fish had to be recalled from ports nationwide after a radiation scare swept the country. The incident, coming less than a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, traumatized Japan. Working with director Ishiro Honda, Tsuburaya turned his octopus into a mutant dinosaur, awakened by a nuclear explosion and not happy about it. The project was quickly green-lighted by the prestigious Toho studio...
...DINOSAUR NEWS...