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...scales, teeth and gills of a fish, but also a big, curved rib cage that suggests the creature had lungs as well. The ribs interlock, moreover, unlike a fish's, implying they were able to bear fishapod's weight-an unnecessary trait in a fish. It had a neck-most unfishlike. And, most surprising of all, its pectoral fins included bones that look like nothing less than a primitive wrist and fingers...
...Gilmore clarifies, films survive several rounds of screenings before reaching his office. Dressed in a cream v-neck sweater, black turtleneck, and jeans, he looks every bit the rugged Westerner one might expect to head a film festival snuggled in Park City, Utah (population...
...Shirin, her older brother and uncle were scheduled to return from Peru with her body this morning. Her body will then be taken to the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Jamaica, N.Y. where the funeral service is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. A native of Great Neck, N.Y., and a 2003 graduate of Williams College, Shakir was an active member of the Harvard Law School Council, the International Law Society, and the Public Interest Auction. She worked with the New York law firm Kramer and Levin over the past summer, where she assisted the firm in its successful...
...DeLay announcement. Other insiders said they had been hearing rumors about DeLay's tight poll numbers as far back as December. Central Texas Republican Congressman John Carter told the Austin American-Statesman that a week ago DeLay had mentioned his "troubling" poll numbers that showed him in a neck-and-neck battle with his likely opponent in November, former Democratic Congressman Nick Lampson...
...rough neighborhood, he was a perfect storm of another kind--handsome enough to talk his way into women's homes, sick enough to rape and kill, smart enough to cover his tracks afterward. "All I know is that something would happen and I would have my arms around their necks," he told an investigator. (Junger makes extensive and creepily effective use of police transcripts.) DeSalvo sometimes posed his victims after the crime for shock value and left the victim's underwear knotted in a decorative bow around her neck...