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...dinosaurs' reign, which lasted from 208 million to 144 million years ago. These largest of all dinosaurs include Brontosaurus (an out-of-favor name these days: call them Apatosaurus, or risk correction by a knowledgeable six-year-old). They evidently used their spoon-shaped and pencil-shaped teeth to bite off leaves and twigs, relying, like many modern birds, on gizzard stones to do the actual chewing. Horned dinosaurs like Triceratops, which lived toward the end of the dinosaur era, in the late Cretaceous, had very inefficient jaws. "Their teeth were arranged in a vertical plane, which is very unusual...
...Crimson's performance against the Minutemen was like one of those sandwiches that looks so appealing from the outside--golden brown French bread with a fancy toothpick holding everything together. But one bite and what's in the middle reveals itself to be odious, a mixture of anchovies and peanut butter...
...genes help control production of behavior-regulating chemicals. One suspect substance is the neurotransmitter serotonin. Experiments at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina suggest that extremely aggressive monkeys have lower levels of serotonin than do more passive peers. Animals with low serotonin are more likely to bite, slap or chase other monkeys. Such animals also seem less social: they spend more time alone and less in close body contact with peers...
Imagine, Roger Clemens got stiffed for the Cy Young award again last year. This is ridiculous. On any other team (bite my tongue) he would have cleared 20 wins, and his ERA and strikeouts were among the top in the league. Three years ago he lost to Bob Welch. (Bob who?) Out and out injustice. I could win 27 games pitching for the 1990 Oakland...
...stations because of their record on children's programming. The agency also narrowed its definition of educational fare to exclude entertainment shows that simply have positive social themes. The House hearings last week ratchetted up the pressure another notch. Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, produced the requisite sound bite: "Children's TV on commercial broadcast television today remains the video equivalent of a Twinkie...