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Confident that they will learn still more about creatures that ruled the earth unchallenged for more than 200 million years, Chiappe and his colleagues plan to return to their dinosaurian mother lode next March. Says Coria: "This discovery opens large doors that had remained closed for years." To make sure the site won't fall prey to contemporary egg snatchers, the provincial government has declared it a protected "paleontological park" and is keeping it under full-time guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unscrambling the Past | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...neuroanatomy of dinosaurs. Vertebrae are especially revealing because the canal running through them varies in size according to the number of nerve fibers it contains, and that in turn depends on how much the muscles controlled by these nerves are used. Giffin is trying to determine whether theropods -- the dinosaurian suborder that includes fierce predators like Oviraptor, Deinonychus, Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus rex -- could have used their undersize forelimbs for grasping or whether the arms were purely vestigial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book on Dinosaurs | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Salt Lake City. Left for dead last November when he ran third in the three-man race for the U.S. Senate, Dinosaurian Sometime Republican J. (for Joseph) Bracken Lee, 60, twice Utah's Governor and six times Salt Lake City's mayor, roared back to political life by blasting corruption, unions, the U.N., federal taxes and foreign aid, defeated Democratic State Senator Bruce Jenkins, 32. To Jenkins' warnings that Salt Lake City would shrivel under the leadership of a man behind the times, the voters sized up Maverick Lee's established reputation for honesty and economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Battle for City Hall | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Both before and after President Eisenhower took to TV to defend his besieged budget (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Capitol Hill Democrats snickered in the cloakrooms: "The Republican Party should demand equal time to answer him!" Utah's neo-dinosaurian Republican ex-Governor J. Bracken Lee, now chairman of the "For America" committee, did exactly that. By last week three major TV networks had turned down Republican Lee's request, leaving only Mutual Broadcasting Network as his last hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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