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...pleasant as during its teen years that led up to World War I. No luxury boxes—hell, I’m still thankful the press box has electricity—but the concrete seating is fan-friendly to be sure, the mobile toilets are armed with pine-tree air fresheners, and the walk to the field’s Allston home isn’t so bad from the Business School. From the Quad? Well, that’s a different story...
Poor man--he's addicted to heroism. Late for an important date, he can't help helping an old lady whose cat is up a tree (by uprooting the tree and shaking the kitty down). He leaps tall buildings to catch a thief, and zooms into the air to save a man plummeting to the ground. All right, so he's late for his date. All right, the date is his own wedding. But a man's got to do his job. And when his name is Mr. Incredible, most stalwart of all superheroes, a job can be an obsession...
...their own. Tom Kunz ran a San Diego office of another Cendant franchise, Century 21, before his promotion to CEO of the real estate firm, and while he was a broker he rejected company appeals to spurn online referrals. Why? Sharing listings with the likes of Lending Tree. com generated enough leads to offset the pain of having to share commissions...
That notion is reinforced, albeit indirectly, by the growth analysis Norell and a group of American and Canadian scientists published in Nature in August. By looking at growth lines--skeletal marks, analogous to tree rings, that show how much bigger a dinosaur got from year to year--the scientists were able to estimate that T. rex packed on weight at a blistering pace, sometimes as much as 5 lbs. a day. That also supports the idea of warm-bloodedness, which means baby T. rex had to have a way to retain body heat. As the dinosaur shot toward adulthood, however...
...Mongolia, Norell and colleagues unearthed a fossil oviraptor sitting on its egg-filled nest.) And then there's also the open question of how flight evolved. Mei long, says Chiappe, was clearly sleeping on the ground. But if flight began as flying-squirrel-like glides out of trees, he wonders, "wouldn't it have been safer resting in a tree...