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DONATE PLASMA TWO CONVENIENT LOCATIONS WESTGATE BIOLOGICALS, INC. 700 UNIVERSITY DRIVE EAST, SUITE 111 COLLEGE STATION 268-6050 DCI BIOLOGICALS BRYAN, INC. 4223 WELLBORN ROAD BRYAN 846-8855 WASHINGTON (AP) — Using advanced computer technology and a laser scanner to document every dimple, bump and scratch, scientists at the Smithsonian Institution are building the most anatomically cor rect skeleton yet of a large dinosaur. The scanner sent millions of signals to a computer, resulting in a series of measurements detailing the exact pro portions “down to the millimeter” of the plant-eater Triceratops, said Richard H. Benson, chairman of the National Museum of Natural History’s paleobiology department. From the final, three-dimensional image appearing on a screen, scien tists built plaster casts. The resulting man-made skeleton, Benson said, “will be more accurate and better” than the museum’s current model, which was assembled from the bones of 15 or more different animals. Triceratops.’ new 7-foot-long plastic skull was delivered to the Smithsonian Tuesday from two firms in Oklahoma, Shared Replica tors and Tulsa Technologies, which built it as a gift to the museum. Museum staff are making the legs and torso and hope to have the replica on display by February. Benson called the man-made Triceratops “a miracle of survey ing.” He compared the process of its creation to satellites circling and measuring the Earth to plot an ex act map of the world. “It will be as though he's aware of the near dan ger and they are circling” — Richard H. Benson Chair of Paleobiology Department While the Smithsonian’s original four-legged Triceratops is perhaps the best specimen around, its head came from an animal a lot smaller than the rest of the skeleton, said Ralph Chapman, director of the mu seum’s morphometries lab. The new skull is about 15 percent larg er than the one that has been on dis play for nearly a century. "It fits rather nicely and bob the way it should,” Chapman said More help came from agroupol paleontologists who agreed on wta a skeleton of a complete Triceraiop! should look like. Some bones on one side of the dinosaur are mirroi images of those on the other side, Chapman said, and the backfeei were made from foot scans of adit ferent Triceratops altogether. Ik new technology also allows scien tists to mold the skeletons into dra matic poses — an impossibilit; with fragile fossils. The Smithsonian already has one plastic dinosaur on display, the meat- eater Tyrannosaurus Rex. He is not as accurate as the new Triceratops: his measurements were not digital ized but estimated “within the toler ance. of scientific knowledge and artistic license,” Benson said. But T. Rex’s pose is so lifelike, people can almost see saliva drip ping from his hungry jaws. Tricer- atops will be positioned directly across the exhibit gallery froml Rex and could be his lunch. “It will be as though he’s aware of the near danger and they are cir cling,” Benson said. Microsoft prefers appellate court WASHINGTON (AP) — Microsoft Corp. re newed its argument that the Supreme Court should let a federal appeals court next handle the huge antitrust fight that threatens to break the computer software gi ant in two. “The benefits of com prehensive review by the court of appeals far out weigh whatever time, if any, might be saved by di rect review in this court,” Microsoft’s lawyers said in a brief filed Monday with the Supreme Court. The company’s brief flatly denied as “unfound ed” the Justice Depart ment’s contention that Mi crosoft is seeking initial review in a federal appeals court as an effort to delay final resolution of the case. “No one is more anx ious than Microsoft to see this case brought to a prompt conclusion,” the 10-page brief said. 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