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...April, the construction of the first "Immersive Virtual Reality Cave Simulator" (IVR-Cave) at the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center was completed and is expected to open to patients in fall 2006, after going through Case Western's internal review board. The simulator is not just for speech therapy patients, however, it is also for students at Case Western who are studying to become speech language psychiatrists. It is a way for students to practice making diagnoses and working with patients, without having to continually hire actors the way medical schools usually...
...evidence that it belonged to a separate species-such as the lack of a chin-could be seen among modern Flores pygmies. It's that last part - the fact that a population of pygmies can still be found living just a stone's throw away from the Liang Bua cave where the original bones were found - that helped clinch the argument for Robert Eckhardt, a developmental geneticist at Penn State and another author of the PNAS paper. "If you look throughout the area, there are plenty of populations where the average male is under a meter and a half...
...gnome farmer's most relevant experience was laying concrete paths. As Myers puts it, he was "bored of doing nothing." But these days his hands are full. Once a figure is sold, he'll make another by pouring concrete into one of the fiberglass molds in his Aladdin's cave of a shed. People will also bring in broken statues. "This one here is unrepairable," he says, lifting the head off a gnome that was recently retrieved from a garden. "He's been knocked around-knocked around with a sledge hammer. Buggered...
...Crystals are my world," says the former agate miner, showing a visitor through the glittering galleries in the artificial cave-complete with polyurethane stalactites and stalagmites-he's made in the basement of the store...
When Ren? Boissevain is not turning motorists' heads in the bumpy-surfaced car he calls his rockmobile or guiding tourists through the cave beneath his shop, he can usually be found down some South American mine shaft in search of rare crystals...