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...single strike breaks the rock in two, revealing a mass of bone in each piece. Creaser gazes at what he recognizes to be the jaws of a largish animal, one that perished some 24 million years ago. But what kind of animal? The others gather around, including Archer, who's one of Australia's best at classifying - all but instantly - what would look to most people like generic bone. "The finest specimen of a marsupial lion jaw that's ever been found," he declares. It seems to have belonged, he explains later, to a previously unknown, intermediate species of this...
...even allows labels on soy products that say they "may reduce the risk of heart disease." But other claims are still in doubt. A new study of 200 women ages 60 to 75 found that a soy-protein powder was no better than a placebo in improving bone density, cognitive function or cholesterol levels. Don't give up tofu just yet, though. The results may not apply to younger women or other soy foods...
Author John Putzier has a bone to pick with organizations that treat their employees as if they were all clones of one another. In his new book, Weirdos in the Workplace, Putzier argues that even the quirkiest employees--from crazy Annie, who talks to her pets on the phone once a day, to annoying Lester, who pesters you to buy his daughter's Girl Scout cookies--have their merit. The book contains humorous real-life case studies that exemplify the growing phenomenon of "doing your own thing." After all, we live in an age of Fear Factor and Survivor...
...touch at the near post would convert into a goal on match day. Thwack, one would take the ball square on his bared chest and then as it landed, fire back an equally powerful airborne pass, about seven feet off the ground, that his mate would meet with the bone of his forehead sending the ball whizzing back at the same speed. And so it went on, like a game of tennis, back and forth, both men displaying an excellent ability to read the flight of the ball and respond appropriately - and also, an almost reckless physicality...
...teenager Kryzanowska started classes at the School of American Ballet. Legendary choreographer George Balanchine co-founded the school in 1934, shortly after his arrival in the U.S., to train students for what eventually became the New York City Ballet. Several years later, Kryzanowska developed a painful bone chip in her ankle, and to help her avoid surgery, Balanchine took her to Joseph Pilates. A German immigrant, Pilates, assisted by his wife Clara, had developed a method of body conditioning that was garnering quite a following among the cognoscenti of ballet, dance and music...