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Spending a day at the hospital with the MSF team reveals the scope of the crisis. "Oh, man, this one is really bad," an Australian doctor shouts as he approaches the operating theater. He's holding up the arm of a man whose limb looks like a shank of lamb. The elbow is essentially gone, and the lower and upper arm is barely held together by a few sinewy strings of muscle and flesh. Though paint is peeling off the walls and a layer of grime covers many of the hospital's windows, Sigli's only hospital is fairly clean...
...seemed that for every Maine shot, there was a Harvard body waiting to block it, and for every Black Bears rebound, there was a Crimson limb or stick waiting to clear...
...body was only about the size of a modern 3-year-old. "At first we were sure we'd found a child," says Morwood. On closer examination, though, the extent of wear on the teeth, evidence that the third molars had come in and the maturity of the limb bones made it clear that they were dealing with a fully grown adult. The shape of the pelvis showed that the skeleton was female, and several dating techniques indicated that it lived as recently as 18,000 years ago. Ultimately the team found fragments of six more individuals, the oldest from...
...Round, directed by Josh S.E. Wright ’05, is a wildly bounding and fun masterpiece of modern design. The music —a well-balanced blend of live keyboard and resounding lyrics—drives the show, and the cast’s sweeping limb extensions, artful poses, swaying heads and accentuated facial expressions are congruent with the musical dynamic. But do not be fooled by its straightforward presentation. The World Goes ’Round, chock-full of cutting wit and daring sexual innuendo, is fresh and racy to the core...
...says Shahristani. When al-Sadr's soldiers disobeyed Sistani's directive not to spill blood in Najaf, Sistani "wept for hours" over the young Iraqi lives that were lost, says an intimate. A diplomat in Baghdad regards Sistani as a "cautious man who doesn't go out on a limb." Sistani's men say he has repeatedly doused al-Sadr's uprisings because he fears violence will only cost the Shi'ites their legitimate claim to power...