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There came to him an image of man's whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man's life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man's grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic...
With the afternoon light fading, the first of three babies, all girls, was lowered in a wire rescue basket down a long ladder to ecstatic applause and cheers. Miners hugged one another. Some medical experts felt that the excess fat and surplus water in the tissues of the newborn had...
Instead, imagine 1000-plus of your favorite acquaintances locking arms in sweaty embrace, swilling impotent potables like apple juice and introducing themselves in the darkness of a converted dining hall to the bump and grind of dance music.
In Clemens' view, the discovery indicates that at least some dinosaur species were not sensitive tropic dwellers but were able to survive through chilly and dark Arctic winters lasting from November to February. That theory tends to undermine the currently popular asteroid version of the apocalypse. According to that model...
Some scientists remain unconvinced, pointing out that the Alaskan climate may have been milder 65 million years ago. Alternatively, northern dinosaurs may have migrated to more temperate climes or lapsed into a kind of hibernation every winter. Says David Stone, a geophysicist at the University of Alaska: "This is a...