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Stunned by a skull fracture, blinded by blood flowing down his forehead, his hands scorched, McFarlane at first tried to carry Williams, whose jaw and both legs were broken. "I was dazed from the impact and I was too weak to carry him, so I just kept running," said McFarlane. "I felt pretty guilty. I was very glad he made it." When rescuers finally reached the four survivors two hours later, they found Williams' backpack, altimeter and sunglasses melted and $6,000 in traveler's checks burned in his pocket. Somehow he was alive...
Williams is recovering. His jaw is wired shut, and doctors will graft bone from his pelvis to replace crushed leg bones. The explosion, he says, "shows how unpredictable these volcanos are, even for so-called experts like ourselves." He relives Galeras in nightmares; yet he feels driven to find more answers. He says he will resume his work...
Harvard goalie Tripp Tracy stopped the charge, but was felled by a storming Mike Bavis in the process. Junior Sean "Riddick Bowe" McCann gave "Michael Dokes" Bavis a lesson he wouldn't soon forget, reprimanding the Terriers' insolence with a quick jab to Bavis' jaw. Knockdown. No penalty for Harvard. Power play over...
Although the ancient hunter lacked the flexible lower jaw and other advanced features of its more ferocious descendants, the overall shape and internal structure of its bones provide strong evidence that the beast was a true dinosaur. "This fossil confirms our suspicions that dinosaurs began as small, carnivorous, bipedal animals," says Paul Sereno, an assistant professor of anatomy at Chicago and a leader of the expedition. "We are just a couple of steps away from the ancestor of all dinosaurs." The scientists named the find Eoraptor, or "dawn stealer," because it appeared at the dawn of the dinosaurs and, considering...
Okay, so what's your GPA? he asked. His jaw dropped when I answered. SAT scores? He smiled when I told...