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...news conference in New York City last week, as well as in a report in Nature, scientists revealed that they had stumbled upon the site of the doomed dinosaur rookery during an expedition to remote badlands in central Argentina last November. Scattered over a square mile of parched Patagonian soil, they found the whole or shattered remains of thousands of grapefruit-size, fossilized dinosaur eggs--so many, in fact, that they couldn't avoid crushing them underfoot or with the wheels of their cars. "We were picking up eggs all over the place," says the American Museum of Natural History...
...towns like the once thriving community of Posoltega, nestled on rich soil beneath the Casitas Volcano in Nicaragua's mountainous northwest, Mitch was the apocalypse. Close to noon on Oct. 30, after the hurricane had dumped three days of rain into Casitas's crater, the mountainside burst with what villagers described as the angry roar of a jetliner. It hurled mud, water and rock onto Posoltega's rooftops, "a terrible, towering wall that just fell out of the clouds," says Santo Diaz, 24. Diaz gathered his elderly father, mother, sister and two brothers to escape--but the avalanche claimed them...
...Crystal Bar and East Cambridge are many thousands of miles away from the foreign soil where Curry, Costa and Kearns served. Yet, these men say that time and distance do not erase the memories of battle...
Despite the rain, which was followed by a draught in July, the apples that survived are colorful and crispy, which Rose attributes to the farm's soil and 1,250-foot elevation...
Myers said the Spanish judges are also investigating the assassinations of two former Allende officials on American soil. But the facts in the investigation of Pinochet are even closer to home...