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Their lives, by the evidence of their remains, were brutish and short. X rays of some 60 complete bodies show that many of the adults had arthritis and bone deformities (not surprising, considering that they performed hard labor), the parasitic disease schistosomiasis (most likely picked up while standing in irrigation ditches), stunted growth (suggesting malnutrition or illness) and tuberculosis. Adults died at 38, on average; few reached 50; and the presence of many children and young mothers implies a high rate of infant mortality and death in childbirth...
...DELHI: You?re elected to lead a fragile minority coalition government, expecting your tenure will be nasty, brutish and short. What to do? Go nuclear, of course. Hindu nationalist Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in today as prime minister and restated his election promise to ?exercise the option to induct nuclear weapons? into India?s arsenal...
Even when they work, the remedies the fund imposes as the price for handing out credit or money can be nasty, brutish and not so temporary. The Philippines has been under IMF supervision for three decades. Following IMF admonitions, the country has enjoyed considerable success in the past five years dismantling government monopolies, selling off state enterprises and opening its banking and telecommunications system. In fact, it had hoped to get out from under the IMF's thumb soon before the crises started...
Literally thousands of leads later, in a case that once had 30 FBI agents assigned to it, not a piece has been recovered and not a person has been arrested. Certain elements of the caper--the brutish way in which some paintings were cut from frames, the valuable pieces left behind, the code of silence that has kept a lid on the mystery--add to the intrigue...
...small theater companies, nurturing emerging young playwrights like himself) and is the only one who seems to be working consciously within a particular form. His Shopping and F______ belongs to the subgenre of so-called smack-and-sodomy plays, in which drug use is rampant and sex is graphic, brutish and usually anal. We are in Trainspotting territory here. The pseudo-family of down-and-out drug-users and drifters in Shopping are--like the characters in Trainspotting, a stage version of which preceded the film (both based on Irvine Welsh's novel)--the alienated youth of Britain, uneasily poised...