2. While it would be great if some super-rich kid would enter the field, is there anyone around today that even slightly resemble the JP-Lost Word character Richard Levine in paleontology?
Anyone so full of themself as Levine wouldn't last long in science*. Once again, Crichton showed that he had no idea.
* ...now that the days of Henry Fairfield Osborn are over, "the only man capable of strutting while sitting down".