Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite more than a century of digging, the fossil record remains maddeningly sparse. With so few clues, even a single bone that doesn't fit into the picture can upset everything. Virtually every major discovery has put deep cracks in the conventional wisdom and forced scientists to concoct new theories, amid furious debate...
...sort of bizarre," said Amanda W. Gates '94 of Harvard Student Agencies. "It seems as though the administration is trying to crack down on publicity... I have a bone of contention with that...
...that last week, days before she left for Lillehammer with her husband and partner Jerod Swallow. Her father was stabbed to death in his Michigan home, allegedly by her mentally disturbed brother. Speed skater Kristen Talbot learned it when she risked her physical ability to compete by giving a bone-marrow transplant last Jan. 11 to her brother Jason, gravely ill with aplastic anemia. Luger Cammy Myler, already chagrined at the dislocated shoulder last September that dimmed her medal chances, felt her injury diminish in meaning when her brother and sporting mentor Tim was hospitalized for potentially fatal colon cancer...
...Smoking cigarettes not only raises the risk of lung cancer and heart disease but also causes damaging bone loss in women. A new study, based on 41 pairs of female twins, has found that women who smoke a pack a day through adulthood reach menopause with bones that are up to 10% less dense than those of nonsmokers -- and more vulnerable to fractures. Researchers speculate that smoking interferes with the body's estrogen production...
...cold floor amid food scraps, cigarette butts and human excrement. Most were in dirty diapers or underwear; one boy, subsequently found to have cerebral palsy, wore bruises, belt marks and cigarette burns on his body. Two of the smallest children, reads the police report, were awake, sharing a neck bone with a dog. As the police removed the children from the residence, one pleaded to a female cop, "Will you be my mommy? I want to go home with...