Word: cm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...booming computer capital, where construction jobs pay $3 a day. To tide him over until he could find work, he agreed to sell his blood. Velu was taken to Yellamma Dasappa, a private hospital, and sedated after admission. When he was discharged eight days later, he had a 25-cm scar on his side. He later learned that his left kidney was missing. Within days, nine other victims told police a similar tale...
JOHANNESBURG: Insect Invasion They hiss, bare their teeth and squirt a noxious black goop. The South African rainy season has brought an influx of so-called Parktown Prawns. Not really crustaceans, the brawny, pink, 10-cm- long king crickets are infesting the gardens of affluent suburbs in ever increasing numbers. Some residents insist they are pollution-induced mutants; others tell of ferocious guard dogs driven off by the bugs. One woman claimed her children were traumatized after encountering an insect in their bedroom, and demanded to sleep in the car. Experts say the insects are harmless--good news, since there...
Singapore .38-cal. Smith & Wesson; 38-cm wooden baton...
There may even be hope for the estimated 200,000 Americans paralyzed by old injuries. By studying how nerve cells grow during embryonic development, scientists believe that they will one day learn to overcome the spinal cord's stubborn unwillingness to repair even a 1-cm gap in its length (a gap that is nonetheless large enough to paralyze function). Several biotechnology firms have cloned specific chemicals that regulate nerve growth, though none are ready for clinical...
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...