Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, in a dry wash known as Kanapoi in Kenya, Harvard Paleontologist Bryan Patterson was poking around for old bones when he came upon what looked like a routine fragment. "I said to myself, 'Ho hum, there's another knuckle bone,' " Patterson told a news conference in Cambridge, Mass., last week. Actually, it was a bit of serendipity. After laboratory analysis of the radioactive decay in the lava surrounding the bone, Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology determined that the bone must be 2,500,000 years old. Since it is a piece of humerus...
Joined by bone and flesh just above the buttocks, they had separate organs except for the rectum. Neither felt the other's pain, and their circulatory systems were largely separate. But a few, small arterial branches "appeared to connect," said Pathologist H. Paul Wakefield, and evidently transported the cancer. He could not be more specific, because his autopsy did not include a microscopic examination of the twins' connected tissues. They had requested that they not be separated even after death-so that they could be buried in a special coffin in the state in which they had lived...
While at Harvard, the Institute asso- ciates--prominent men in public life--have met with students and Faculty members almost exclusively in private meetings. This practice, intended by the Institute to foster better understanding between scholars and government officials, has been a bone of contention with...
Anybody who hangs around Vince Lombardi's Packers for long is bound to get bruised. Basic, bone-bending football is Lombardi's game, and he has made the most of it with four N.F.L. championships in the past six years. Nothing risky, no mistakes. Nothing risky, that is, except where the gamble could mean a payoff of $23,500 per man-like last week against the Dallas Cowboys for the N.F.L. championship and a trip to Los Angeles. Unable to run against a fierce Dallas defense, Quarterback Starr suddenly put wings on the ball. Three times...
...late, my boy. The little shards of bone from your father's temple will be scattered around this lavatory floor like the bloody roots and broken crowns of extracted teeth...