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...Neanderthal man may now have a new nickname: “Ginger.” Some Neanderthals had red hair and pale skin, according to recent research conducted by Holger Römpler, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Evolutionary and Organismic Biology, and a host of international colleagues. Römpler and his collaborators extracted DNA from the bones of two Neanderthals, a 43,000-year-old Neanderthal from El Sidrón, Spain, and a 50,000-year-old from Monti Lessini, Italy. Looking at the cells of the Neanderthal bones, the researchers discovered a specific...
...Forensic Orthopedic Autopsy Muscular Anatomical Surgical Specialist.” Porter recited the doctor’s latest work, the eponymous collection of poems about muscles, while moving her own muscles in interpretive dances of the poems. The performance was imaginative, creative, and a bit beyond the pale. Claire Porter’s poetry dives into the mundane names of over 68 different muscles, describing their respective functions and etymological origins. With titles such as “Psoas—The Tender Bender,” and “Gluteus to my Ears,” you couldn?...
Gentlemen is set around A.D. 950 in a politically chaotic region of the Caucasus mountains. Our heroes are two rootless adventurers: Amram, a massive Abyssinian axman, and Zelikman, a pale, painfully skinny Frank (a kind of proto-German) who dresses in all black and carries a surgical instrument as a weapon. They are fast friends, seasoned brawlers and amateur philosophers given to terse exchanges of melancholy wit. They resemble--as all couples who stay together long enough ultimately do--Vladimir and Estragon from Waiting for Godot...
...Another part of Kerr's chameleonic character was her red hair, a dramatic frame for her pale skin. For her three Colonel Blimp characters she had worn it in different shades and styles, from upswept scarlet to sensible russet. She was a natural for Hollywood in the postwar years, when more movies were made in Technicolor, and red was the fashionable tint for an actress. Yet in her most famous film role - anyway, film scene - she went platinum blond...
...sunny Saturday afternoon at the old Palmer Stadium in Princeton, a football expedition into the wilds of New Jersey. The laughs were based on plays on word, riffing on the last name of the Crimson’s standout tailback in a pale imitation of Abbott and Costello. Unfortunately, Wutt wasn’t playing quarterback that day. But the experience is memorable because it united father and son in a shared fondness for sports, for settings and trips like that one. Across the bleachers, across the country, football brings families together.On the field, too. Tomorrow, the Ojukwu brothers (junior...