If you can't live without the New Yorker...

80 Years of The New Yorker to Be Offered in Disc Form
By EDWARD WYATT
"The New Yorker, the weekly magazine that started as "a hectic book of gossip, cartoons and facetiae," as Louis Menand once wrote, and has evolved into a citadel of narrative nonfiction and investigative reporting, will publish its entire 80-year archives on searchable computer discs this fall." -- cost: $100 cover price on DVD.

Bird Ancestors

Study Finds Stronger Dinosaur-Bird Link
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
"Scientists have found bone tissue in a Tyrannosaurus rex that they say shows the 70-million-year-old animal was an ovulating female. The estrogen-derived tissue, they determined, is similar to tissue now present only in living birds producing egg shells.

The discovery team concluded in a report to be published on Friday in the journal Science that the finding "solidifies the link between dinosaurs and birds" and "provides an objective means of gender differentiation in dinosaurs."