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Those tribes who were not under threat of attack drew the geometric shapes and the relationship between the nose, eyes and forehead accurately, Pontius says...
...Stone Age art, there is one shared characteristic that seems universal," Pontius says. "The human face always shows a consistent deviation from the norm in the configuration of the eye, nose and forehead...
...There is no interruption between nose and forehead," she adds. "The nose is coming continuously out of the forehead...
...traveling medicine show. Musa is worldliness made flesh, the sort of opportunist and schemer who if asked to swap his soul for profit would probably respond, "What's the catch?" By contrast, Crace's Messiah-in-training is a bit of a stick: an inept carpenter with a stuffy nose, a functional illiterate, the kind of cheerless guy who has to make camping out with snakes and scorpions even harder than it already is. On the other hand he has an iron will. Starved and dangerously dehydrated, he resists the tantalizing bribes of food and water that Musa dangles...
...steamed out to sea, zoologist Kevin Robinson and colleagues hosed J.J. with water. Animal-care supervisor Keith Yip, who for months had planned the move of the largest mammal ever transported, never left his position at the forward edge of the sling, where he stroked J.J.'s bumpy nose, uttered soothing words and looked admiringly into her intelligent, questioning eyes. "Just saying my goodbyes, I guess," murmured Yip, a father of two. "For the past year, J.J. has been my third...