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...SHOES Brownish-red moccasins, a style worn since investiture...
...incest memoir The Kiss, read her latest confession at the ninth annual PEN/Faulkner dinner in Washington to a crowd of squeamish guests that included William Rehnquist and Amy Tan. In her piece, Harrison announced that she had first stuck her finger into the urn that contained her grandmother's brownish, bone-studded ashes, licked it and then decided to go back for a full, five-fingered snack. We hope they served a nice Chianti...
...processed, assigned a number and then locked away like a rare book. Each brain is photographed, weighed and sliced into sections. From these sections researchers remove the barest slivers of tissue, which they examine under high-power microscopes. What they are looking for is the freckling of brownish plaques and blackish tangles that are the telltale marks of Alzheimer's. While such blemishes may show up in virtually any area of the brain, they are usually densest in the hippocampus, the seahorse-shaped region that is critical to memory...
Though the mummified body was completely hairless, investigators have plucked about 1,000 curly brownish-black hairs from the recovered shreds of clothing. Those that came from the Iceman's head were only 9 cm (3 1/2 in.) long -- evidence that humans had been cutting their hair far earlier than anthropologists had believed. More mysterious were the well-defined tattoos: groups of blue parallel lines on the Iceman's lower spine, a cross behind the left knee and stripes on the right ankle. "Since all these tattoos were covered by clothing," says Spindler, "they must have had an inner meaning...
...feeding begins. Guards select about 20 people from the front rows and steer them toward the food vats, six huge oil barrels cut in half and fitted with wire handles. Working quickly, Somali servers ladle out two large cupfuls of steaming Unimix, a brownish mixture of maize, beans and vegetable oil, for each person. Suddenly, an elderly woman rushes forward, inadvertently knocking the steaming ration from a small girl's wizened hands. The child howls in pain and anger: the gruel is scalding hot (several other children display peeling scars from previous burns), but far worse, the day's only...