Word: skeletonized
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...soundscape of Pole-like dub and fuzzed out guitar lines, he transubstantiates his snippets’ individual unsongness into lyrical gold. Dose sing-speaks couplets like “what’s left are fires beating off of faces” and “the bright red skeleton of a cynic” until the anthemic refrain of “no wet concrete for new song street…” kicks in paradoxically, negating the conceptual basis of the exercise through its cohesiveness even while expressing a total disregard for preconceived structure. In less practiced...
...Friday, Hwang and his roommate crossed the Charles River to the Longwood Medical Campus to visit the Warren Anatomical Museum, located in Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine. Among its array of medical artifacts, the museum boasts the first ether inhaler, a skeleton of Siamese twins, and the skull of Phineas Gage—a railroad worker who experienced severe personality changes after a nail went through his frontal lobe...
There’s bound to be many a skeleton in Harvard’s closets, but the possibility of links to Hitler rattle a little louder than others. Last October, the media came running when a University of Oklahoma professor, Stephen Norwood, announced that he had found evidence tying Harvard to Nazi Germany. Speaking at an academic conference at Boston University, Norwood declared that Harvard had warmly received Nazi officers in the 1930s, formally recognized German universities taken over by Hitler, and voiced support for the Third Reich...
...SKELETON KEYS...
Indeed, Meng and his colleagues didn't expect to find things like this at all. The smaller skeleton was discovered about two years ago by villagers in China's Liaoning province, site of some of the richest fossil beds in the world. They brought it to the attention of scientists, who took it to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing for examination. "We didn't see the stomach contents at first," says graduate student Yaoming Hu, who is affiliated with the institute and is the lead author of the Nature paper...