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Chinese villagers eat dinosaur bones
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| 7/4/07
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Posted on 07/04/2007 5:30:21 AM PDT by Flavius
BEIJING - Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.
Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as "dragon bones" at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adriennemayor; china; godsgravesglyphs
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To: editor-surveyor
Did a bit of research & think I see my errors. The coral is not fossilized & is not part of the reef structure?
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07/06/2007 2:48:44 AM PDT
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elli1
To: Bringbackthedraft
As long as they got one from Column A and one from Column B.
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07/06/2007 2:49:55 AM PDT
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AmericanInTokyo
(Sad so many members of the World's Policeman--our fellow Americans--know little about their "beat")
To: elli1
That is correct. It’s small fragments that naturally crumble off over a long period of time.
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07/08/2007 4:41:23 PM PDT
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editor-surveyor
(Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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