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...animals as hat racks or as parts of ceremonial altars, unaware that these trophies represented species new to science. Indeed, MacKinnon found among the unsorted bones in the collection of Hanoi's Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources some skulls of the slow-running deer that had been gathering dust since the late 1960s, when they were picked up during a Vietnamese collecting expedition. During a recent trip to the institute, MacKinnon spotted yet another strange pair of antlers in the same box of bones. A fourth species? It defies probability, but he set the antlers aside for further investigation...
...however, will be too busy having a high-energy good time to question director-choreographer-adapter David Bell's inspired tinkering (with hip musical help from Rob Bowman). Even for G&S fans, this is a lot better than watching D'Oyly Carte traditionalists wheezing their own dust...
...within days she had called friends to try out her idea, to hustle funds to restore the old mansion as it had been in the days of Jefferson and Madison. There was Jackie prowling government warehouses for old furniture and diving into the White House basement, smudging herself with dust but scrounging up desks, tables and chairs...
...thought that I was going to leave you in the dust, baseball fans, didn't you? Sure, we have the Crimson Sports Wire now (temporarily, actually, so if you like it, tell us!), and all you thought that I was going to leave you, right...
...first six decades of Willie Gill's life, the winding dirt road next to his house in Chilton County, Alabama, was a nuisance. If trucks weren't churning its surface into clouds of red dust, rains were turning it into a swamp. Gill, who is black, never really expected the all-white county commission to do much about it. "But Mr. Agee, he come and put in a paved road just about last year," Gill reports. "I'm glad to have...