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Going against the custom of mounting the most spectacular dinosaur bones on steel, which can reduce their scientific value, he aims to put only a bronze cast of his tyrannosaurus outside the museum. The bones will go on display much as his crew found them. The idea is to let ordinary museumgoers see the evidence from which paleontologists make their leaps of reasoning and imagination. They will be able to argue, for instance, over the only tyrannosaurus arm ever found. It is about as long as a human arm -- too short, in Horner's view, to be much...
Readers eager to forget the dispiriting 1988 Bush-Dukakis race might be put off by the dust jacket of this book. It promises that would-be First Lady Kitty Dukakis will take us "behind the scenes to show us what it was really like on the national campaign trail." But never fear. She does nothing of the kind. The closing weeks of the campaign -- the last rallies, the absence of her preferred hairdresser on election night, the finale, the concession speeches -- occupy two pages, roughly half the space devoted to a subsequent river-rafting trip during which Kitty learned that...
...legal experts think Bosze will prevail. "The legal tradition is very strong that you can't invade a child's body to help another," says medical ethicist Daniel Callahan. But he adds that Curran's moral case is far weaker than her legal one. "She is being asked to put her children at comparatively slight risk to save the life of their half brother." Sadly, as Jean-Pierre's condition worsens, the issue may soon be moot...
BUSINESS: Where to put your money in a time of crisis...
...Coles, for example, have acquired skills they never imagined they'd need, like dodging creditors. Sometimes they put the electric bill in Jennifer's maiden name and the phone bill in Jeff's name, then move to another town and do the reverse. "We owe everybody money," says Jennifer. "It becomes, 'Do we want to pay back $400 we owe his parents -- they're not exactly wealthy people -- or do we pay the people who are chasing us the hardest...