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...surgical instruments. Hobbins suggests that the dramatic scream may have been a fetal yawn, because "the fetus spends lots of time with its mouth open." Indeed, he says, the gaping mouth in the blurry film may not have been a mouth at all, but the space between the fetal chin and chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Silent Scream | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...shelling started at midnight. It was so heavy that I could hardly raise my head to fire at the men climbing toward us," said Squad Leader Ngun Chin, 29, describing the Vietnamese artillery rounds that rained last week on Green Hill, the last major Khmer resistance stronghold on the Thai-Kampuchean border. All night long, Chin and his 32 guerrilla fighters were pinned down in a trench at the edge of a steep escarpment that the defenders had hoped would protect them against being overrun. But shortly before dawn, Chin's squad received orders to withdraw, and the camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia Clean Sweep: The last Khmer base falls | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

Women's styles currently tend to taper close to the nape of the neck with close sides and a fuller crown. "A lot of people like to see their ears now," says Michael DiBlasi owner of Michael's Hair Design at 1105 Mass. Ave. Layered chin-length bobs blunt cuts (where all the hair is cut the same length), and wispy bangs...

Author: By Andrea Shen, | Title: What's New in Hair | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Eugene Wen-Chin Wu, head librarian of the Yenching Library, said the partial diary is the first find of its kind since the library first opened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Librarian Finds 18th Century Manuscript | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

From 5 ft. away one sees how the chin of a woman is like a crag or how the white eyeballs of the old man on the left of the Jacob-Joseph lunette bulge like those of a bodhisattva in a "mad" Zen scroll; and how this is reinforced by colors nobody had seen since the end of the 16th century. They had begun to disappear almost from the moment Michelangelo began laying them on the wet plaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Unfamiliar Michelangelo | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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