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Length in inches of the egg below. The dino would have walked on four legs before maturing into a 16-ft.-long biped...
...space system that reduced costs would be, to the contractors, killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Just a few weeks ago, NASA canceled a program called the Space Launch Initiative, whose goal was to design a much cheaper and more reliable replacement for the shuttle. Along with the cancellation, NASA announced that the shuttle fleet would remain in operation until 2020, meaning that Columbia was supposed to continue flying into outer space even when its airframe was more than 40 years old! True, B-52s have flown as long. But they don't endure three times the force...
Tommy Doyles’ menu offers an eclectic mix of pub food, from burgers and fajitas to calamari, salads, and egg-heavy brunches. True to its roots, the restaurant also features Irish stew, corned beef and cabbage, shepherd’s pie, and bangers and mash. Entrees are generally priced...
...these are animals that suffer for their families. They're obliged to trek some 70 miles to their breeding ground (where the ice is thick enough to support the enormous colony). There they all approach starvation during the dark, 80º-below-zero winter, the father protecting the egg while the mother returns to the ocean for food, which she stores in her belly and disgorges to the hatched chick. She then takes over the baby sitting while the father makes the same journey...
...most common tests reveal only a sliver of ancestry. The Y-chromosome test, for example, traces only the patrilineal line (your father's father's father and so on, but not your father's mother). Similarly, the mitochondrial-DNA test, which looks at DNA passed from the mother's egg to both her male and female children, illuminates only your mother's female ancestry. "If you go back 300 years, you have more than 1,000 ancestors. They are telling you about 1 in 1,000 of your ancestors. I think they should make that clear," says Stanford ethicist Greely...