Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rush Limbaugh Good for America?'' [Cover Stories, Jan. 23]. You bet! Right down to the bone...
...Magnons were not the inarticulate Alley Oops of popular myth. They were nomadic hunter-gatherers with a fairly developed technology. They wore animal-skin clothing and moccasins tailored with bone needles, and made beautiful (and highly efficient) laurel-leaf-shaped flint blades. Living in small groups, they constructed tents from skins, and huts from branches and (in what is now Eastern Europe) mammoth bones...
...scales-the work of early artists popped up in several corners of the globe. Archaeologists have found more than 10,000 sculpted and engraved objects in hundreds of locations across Europe, southern Africa, northern Asia and Australia. The styles range from realistic to abstract, and the materials include stone, bone, antler, ivory, wood, paint, teeth, claws, shells and clay that have been carved, sculpted and painted to represent animals, plants, geometric forms, landscape features and human beings-virtually every medium and every kind of subject that artists would return to thousands of years later...
...father said, but Emiko pleaded, ``You can't, father. You must live, for mother's sake!'' Emiko pulled him out of the house seconds before it was engulfed in flames. The photograph was taken the following day, when Emiko returned to sift through the ashes for fragments of bone, all that was left of her mother's body...
...like the last recession (and, for that matter, the economic recovery), America's new heft is not evenly distributed. The bone-thin models in the fashion ads seem to live only in slivers of the U.S. along the two coasts -- primarily in New York City and Los Angeles. The people in the country's midsection, points out Dr. Michael Jensen, who treats obese people at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, tend to be beefier. "There's a lot less social pressure to maintain a lean weight in the Midwest," he says...