Word: skeletonic
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...Huggable Dinosaurs? Norwegian scientists last month announced the discovery of the first complete skeleton of a pliosaur, a vicious 10-m-long sea predator with teeth as big as cucumbers [Oct. 16]. Most dinosaurs, however, weren't nearly so scary, as TIME reported in its Sept. 10, 1990, story on paleontologist Jack Horner...
...containers of liquids that you were forced to check. Japanese designer Hideo Wakamatsu's brightly colored scratch-resistant trolley cases ($200-$300) feature smooth magnetic locks and four soft, silent polyurethane wheels recessed into the frame to avoid damage in transit. For travelers with nothing to hide, his Skeleton trolley ($400) is made of superstrong, see-through thermoplastic framed in anodized aluminum...
...Perhaps there's a hidden truth that belies Warner's simple explanation, a skeleton in a closet that was about to get the kind of rummaging that only a presidential campaign can bring. But the known evidence suggests he is being honest. Those close to him say that even though his wife and daughters were willing to support a presidential run, he felt guilty about missing so much of his children's lives for the sake of pursuing political office. A fiercely ambitious man, he discovered something he didn't expect when he asked himself how badly he wanted...
...straightforward process, with the added philosophy of “why not?”—but these hypotheticals become so over the top that the video becomes entertaining through sheer effort. Why not stick the band on a float, followed by a bunch of people in skeleton makeup, and have them march down a post-apocalyptic road? Why not put a damn blimp above it with a sign that reads “The Black Parade,” just in case there’s any confusion? Why not ramp up the drama by making...
...million Age, in years, of a girl's skeleton-thought to be the oldest remains ever found of a child-recently unearthed in Ethiopia 150,000 Estimated number of years after the death of the child, nicknamed Lucy's Baby, that Lucy, the most famous primitive human specimen, walked the earth