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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...determining the age of fossilized extinct mammals that crop up nearby. The two fossils cited in the new Science paper were originally dated that way. The "Mojokerto child," a juvenile skullcap found in 1936, was estimated to be about 1 million years old. And a crushed face and partial cranium from Sangiran were judged a bit younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Man Began | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Actually, as of the Lafayette game, Ramer was the only one with a completely bald cranium. Ellis has an H shaved in the back of his head and a long stubble covers Andre scalp...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Of Shaved Heads And Windy Cities | 10/6/1993 | See Source »

...face of all of this pessimism, you'd have to have a skull made of titanium to resist becoming jaded. My own cranium lacking any metallic elements, I happily joined in all of the sarcastic remarks and the hooting at painstakingly scrawled letters. Eventually I was caught between guilt and disdain. On the one hand, I was guilty of complicity in this huge racket. On the other, the American people didn't deserve my respect; each day we were flooded with constituents' petty concerns and poorly articulated requests. Whiners, the lot of them...

Author: By Allen C. Soong, | Title: The View From a Senatorial Mailroom | 9/22/1993 | See Source »

Both men realized how things already made of iron could be brought into sculpture, thus extending the aesthetics of assemblage and the found object. To see Picasso's joining two tin half-spheres -- kitchen colanders -- to form the cranium of Head of a Woman, 1929-30, or Gonzalez's recycling what appears to be a pair of scythe blades as the wings of a creature midway between angel and praying mantis, is to witness plays of the dreaming, free-associating, punning mind that seem fundamental to modernism. Iron, in the form of objects that could be almost randomly brought together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Iron Age Of Sculpture | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...head in the game, BC put its head into it--two heads into the net in particular. Back Marius Lund bumped in a cross shot at 97:22 (in the first overtime) and sealed the victory at 110:47 (second overtime), completing a corner kick with his cranium...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Booters Trapped In Funk | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

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