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Article: DINOSAUR DREAMS.(fossils)
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- Harper's Magazine
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- October 1, 2001
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Reading the bones of America's psychic mascot
Sixty-five million years ago, conservatively speaking, the last dinosaurs lay down and died--on the ground, beside rivers, in tar pits. Then, about a hundred years ago, they got back up and have been pretty busy ever since. Hardly a week goes by that they don't make the news, because of a new theory about either how they lived or how they died. There might be word of a new prime-time TV deal, another revelry (Dinofest V is planned for next year), a new exhibit, the goings-on of paleontological hunk Paul Sereno, a Spielberg script, a hot toy, a legal dispute about some bones, an egg.
In America, where ...