4-foot mummified bone from extinct species of walrus highlights interest in ancient artifacts By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Among all the fossils, skeletons, meteorites and gemstones for sale Sunday at the I.M. Chait Gallery natural history auction, lot #127 stands out. It’s a mummified baculum, or penis bone, from […]
Dairies crack down on stolen milk crates that feed black market for plastics Ran on AP Business wire, in USA Today and in LA Times business section (without a byline) By Raquel Maria Dillon | ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) _ For decades, college kids have used stolen milk crates as the basic building blocks […]
Do you speak Kitteh? By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON for ASAP (AP’s now defunct multimedia service) LOS ANGELES (AP) _It looks like the inspirational posters found in a guidance counselor’s office — a Siamese kitten playing with balls of colorful yarn. Then there’s the caption: “I’m in ur fizx lab, testn ur string therry.” Lolcats — […]