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...that everyone can have a chance to see. She tells us of how Mather boiled Burrows’ skull and found that it was of an abnormal size, leading him to claim Burrows was a witch. “But, of course, when you boil someone’s skeleton, their bones expand,” Laura tells us chirpily...
MEANWHILE IN VENEZUELA ... Jurassic Pet Scientists announced the discovery of a giant guinea pig weighing 300 kg that roamed South America 8 million years ago. Goya, as it was nicknamed by paleontologists who excavated its 3-m long skeleton, is the largest rodent ever found - 700 times heavier than its fluffy modern-day cousin. Experts speculated that Goya died out because it was too slow to escape predators and was too big to dive into burrows like its more petite relatives...
...challenge. At 29, he is married with two kids and prefers handling the Neptunes' daily business at the band's Virginia Beach recording studio. "I don't mind being the one surrounded by tapes and buttons," he says. (It is Hugo who usually puts together the melodic skeleton of a song, while Williams works on the beats and lyrics with the artist.) "I'll put it to you this way: if we were a rock band--like Van Halen--I'd be Eddie Van Halen, the guy who just gets transported by practicing guitar riffs and learning techniques...
...possible to 'go modern' and still 'be British.'" In 1933 he helped found Unit One, a movement that aimed to revitalize British art by embracing Continental modernism. One of his most successful Surrealist works is Landscape From a Dream (1936-38), where an angry bird, framed by the skeleton of a folding screen, peers at its reflection against a Dorset coastline. But the English landscape eventually triumphed over secondhand motifs. Nash had always been something of an animist, recording in his autobiography a lifelong sense of the spirit of place. After the outbreak of World...
...future growth. The committee currently boasts more than two-dozen affiliated faculty offering 16 undergraduate dramatic arts courses. Harvard also has access to affiliated theaters like the Agassiz, the Loeb Experimental and the Mainstage, which already provide some rehearsal and technical space for student performers. These represent a loose skeleton on which a fully fleshed-out department can be created...