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...with the warmer weather revealed an old tattoo on his left forearm: an infantry insignia of crossed rifles above the inscription U.S. ARMY. Officials deemed the tattoo unacceptable, and Jenkins was carted off to a hospital. A doctor, he claims, cut the flesh bearing the offending words from his arm with a knife and scissors?and no anesthetic. "The doctor told me that they save anesthetic for the battlefield," he recalls...
...which was given a monopoly on China's jet-fuel imports in 2001. CAO notified its Beijing parent of its growing loss on Oct. 10, according to an affidavit filed at Singapore's High Court. The parent approved the sale of 15% of CAO on Oct. 20. The investment arm of the Singaporean government, Temasek Holdings, bought about 2% of the company...
...Dahiyat wanted to show that he could make a V-shaped protein with a coil falling off the top of one arm. His Caltech colleagues laughed, but off he went to the supercomputer at Caltech's famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "I said, here's the shape I want to make, tell us the sequence,'' he recalls. By the end of the day, the computer gave him billions of possible amino acid combinations and recommended the best one. Dahiyat threw that sequence into a small, tunnel-like device called an NMR spectrometer. About a minute later, Dahiyat noticed that...
...matchmaking session. In her “spare” time, she performs simple abortions to “help out young girls,” as she conceives of it, in a British cultural climate in which doing so is almost unthinkably wrong. The pendulous arm of justice, too, presses down on Vera Drake. By the end of the film, it is not just women as a social category who must live without freedom but Vera herself, forced to exchange liberty for captivity and the ultimate sort of crowdedness—that of a prison...
Elmo dolls always balance on the fine line between genius and insanity. This year he spells his name with big-arm gestures to a variant of the Village People's classic YMCA. fisher-price.com...