By KENNETH CHANG
When David Krause first discovered fossil bones from a frog that lived in Madagascar in the time of dinosaurs, he could not tell much except that it was big. He and his co-workers called it the “frog from hell.”
It took 15 years and another 75 incomplete fossils to put together enough the pieces […]
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By PATRICK HEALY and JEFF ZELENY
Senator Barack Obama decisively beat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Wisconsin primary and the Hawaii caucuses on Tuesday night, accelerating his momentum ahead of crucial primaries in Ohio and Texas and cutting into Mrs. Clinton’s support among women and union members.
Barack Obama, Hawaii, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain, Politics, […]
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Music ReviewBy KELEFA SANNEH
If you had found yourself on Irving Place on Monday afternoon you might have noticed a few hundred amped-up fans — mainly young, almost exclusively female — standing in line. And you might have wondered what was going on. And if you had shown up at the Fillmore New York at […]
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By DENNIS OVERBYE
It’s been called the whitest place on Earth, and at 90 degrees below zero, it could be the coolest place on the planet for astronomy.
And so 17 Chinese astronomers, engineers and technicians boarded an old icebreaker last November, crunched into a harbor in East Antarctica and then set off on a 20-day, […]
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Health Plans By REED ABELSON
For more than four decades, on telethons featuring celebrity performers and children in wheelchairs, Jerry Lewis has been raising money each Labor Day for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the disease that helped make “poster child” part of the American idiom.
On the most recent telethon, which was staged in Las […]
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By HOWARD BECK
Keith Van Horn earned $4.3 million on Tuesday, for nothing more than a signature and a flight to New Jersey. Aaron McKie earned $750,000 a few weeks ago for a few pen strokes and a trip to Memphis.
Retirement from the N.B.A. has never been so profitable.
In a league with a salary cap, a […]
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