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	words in the news getting looked up

jrome

4-26-2007 1:14 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6ad65b0e-0af5-49ad-8667-b3d7e9018bca/B80FF672-B376-4853-9A04-0DA241339A1B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.answers.com/" href="http://www.answers.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.answers.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/"><P class="highlightsHeading">Say What?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/"><P class="sayWhatHeading"><SPAN class="sayWhatTopic"><IMG class="quoteImg" src="http://site.answers.com/main11569/images/homeSmallQuote_start.gif" />saurian</SPAN><IMG class="quoteImg" src="http://site.answers.com/main11569/images/homeSmallQuote_end.gif" />   Who said it? Where? Why?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/"><P class="sayWhatSub">A daily dose of uncommon words our readers are looking up</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.answers.com/"><P>We, firmly rooted in the 21st century, may be accustomed to thinking of lizards when we come across the word <B><A  class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/saurian">saurian</A></B>. But this <I>New York Times</I> editorial reminds us that many millennia ago, more ferocious specimens of <A  class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/sauria-1">Sauria</A> roamed the Earth:
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"... scientists have recently recovered a protein from the femur of a <A  class="ilnk" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/tyrannosaurus-rex">Tyrannosaurus rex</A>.... There will be other discoveries to come, and soon. They should remind us how steadily our knowledge of that ancient <B>saurian</B> world has deepened... it will require a rethinking of everything we think we know about creatures living in the present, including us."
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