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...Cushing's great contributions to surgery was his operation for removal of tumors rooted in the nerve of hearing. Turning down a flap of muscles at the back of the neck, the surgeon cuts out a piece of bone at the base of the skull, gently pushes aside the soft cerebellum in order to bare the acoustic nerve. After removing the tumor he resettles the cerebellum, tightly stitches down the tough flap of neck muscle. The bone is not replaced, for the muscle-patch is strong enough to protect the patient from injury. The entire operation is performed under...
...emphasized that although they had a terrific brain, the rest of their body was pretty poor. "Notice that one," he said sympathetically. "His fins flap the wrong way for some reason, and he can't steer to save his neck...
...that in Ulysses' day would certainly have been referred to the oracles for interpretation: 1) At Galápagos, on shore leave, seamen from the Houston beheld two huge hawks swooping down upon a herd of wild goats. Each hawk seized a kid in its talons, started to flap away. Hurling stones at the hawks, the sailors made them drop the kids, which they took aboard the Houston as gifts for the U. S. Naval Academy...
...surface with their big tail fins and then shoot out into the air at a low angle. The instant their wings are clear of the water they unfold. What the fish do with their wings next seems to be any observer's guess. If the fins flap or flutter, the fish may be said to fly. If the fish hold their outspread fins stiffly, they may be said simply to glide...
...Dome, El Capitan and the rest of the valley's wonders. The Jorgensens became fast friends of the valley's best-known inhabitant, bearded Naturalist John Muir. In 1903 when Theodore Roosevelt visited the valley he outraged the inhabitants by turning down an elaborate reception to eat flap jacks over a campfire with Naturalist Muir and Painter Jorgensen...