Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future. Such arrangements were made with Singapore and Burundi, which together had more than 390 tons of ivory. Traders' ivory, once suspect because it lacked documentation, suddenly quadrupled in value. In countries intent on barring illegal ivory, customs agents have found thousands of tusks in crates marked BEESWAX, BONE MATERIAL, MARBLE and JEWELRY. But most illicit ivory slips through...
...from Burundi. When Chris Huxley, then a CITES official, examined some of the more than 50 tons of tusks Wang owned in Singapore, he found evidence that suggested some of the elephants had not died of natural causes: "A few had light-caliber bullet damage. Some still had considerable bone attached and had obviously been removed rapidly and/or by amateurs . . . a few had been buried...
...coffee, which he insists is "quite good." What causes the professor to lower his voice to a drone is the presence, at the next table, of a local Communist official. "They say he is honest," says the professor. "They say that he doesn't have a crooked bone in his body. Maybe so, but I am certain those bones are held together by crooked...
...trick is to take the good and avoid the bad. In other words, you must suck the marrow out of the Harvard experience, while swallowing as little bone as possible...
...lake in upstate New York. The hospital pathologist who performed the autopsy judged the slim, athletically built victim to be in her 20s and said she had been dead three weeks. A few days later, medical examiner Michael Baden autopsied the body and came to a startlingly different conclusion. Bone spurs on the woman's spine and her atrophied ovaries revealed that she was about 55 years old, and microscopic study of the algae indicated that the body had been in the water at least 1 1/2 years...