Word: skeletonic
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...privately. The global interconnection is not a mass identity crisis; it is a control and power crisis. The more information (dirt) you have on someone, the more you are in control of that person. The next generation must be highly intelligent--or moral--as the electronic skeleton finder will come to everybody's closet. (THE REV.) GARY E. THOMAS, Pastor First Baptist Church Lowell...
...Seng drew himself as a skeleton. He would be about 25 today. As a boy of 10, he had dark, serious eyes and large ears that gave his face a scholarly look. His father, a doctor, had been executed by a firing squad because he was an intellectual and thus threatened Pol Pot's primitivist ideology. People who wore glasses also were killed because it was assumed they could read...
...landmark report in last week's issue of the journal Cell suggests that whatever else Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did, they probably did not make love. In a tour de force experiment that involved extracting a microscopic strand of ancient DNA from the arm bone of a Neanderthal skeleton, a team led by Dr. Svante Paabo of the University of Munich showed that the two species have almost nothing in common, genetically speaking...
...Fast Track is a good idea," said Rudd W. Coffey '97, who served as a member of the advisory committee. "It is a self-contained unit that allows Loker to run on a skeleton crew...
...visual aesthetic was bound to rise from American utilitarianism. It showed itself earliest--and most dramatically--in the art where science, material and common social needs intersected: architecture. Its great expression was the iron grid, which begat the skyscraper. The technology of cast-iron joists and columns as the skeleton of a multistory building had come from Europe, but it mutated and ramified in the U.S., especially in New York City. There early architects like Daniel Badger (1806-84) popularized it and crossed it with mass production...