Word: skeletonized
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...Smith, a scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, says this particular skeleton was probably torn apart by sharp-toothed predators as it lay on the beach of a warm tropical sea. He found only a few bones, but they were enough to calculate the dinosaur's gargantuan size at 80 to 100 feet long and weighing 60-70 tons. The find solves another mystery: what those previously discovered predators - three different kinds, each (at 50 feet) bigger than Tyrannosaurus Rex - were dining on during their prehistoric stay on the old North African coast. Said Smith: "Now we've found...
...storm is over, and the sun returns. The albino rides the light. At a certain angle, the bird becomes a radiance, a sort of feathered parhelion, a sundog. Yet at the core of the radiance you make out a dark center, the bird's skeleton and organs - in the way your hand looked to you when you were a child and you shined a flashlight beam through it, and through the translucence of your flesh, saw the dark blur of your bones...
...kidney collapsed and he fell into a coma. A second transplant was ordered. "But the doctor had another plan," says Wiwijaya. "He wanted to give the best kidney to whomever paid the best price." Wiwijaya says his brother was given a lesser match. He died in January, a skeleton on a dialysis machine. "The doctor took his life," Wiwijaya says. "Everybody in that hospital wants a fee for everything they do. They're like vampires...
...House seems to be all thumbs when it comes to the environment. Environmental groups see the White House's latest move as a further indication that the administration disdains their concerns. By "gutting" the Clinton rule, as one member of Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund put it, but maintaining a skeleton, the administration can claim it is holding firm on protections even as it offers concessions to industry. "This is clearly an effort to split the difference," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Carney. "Bush has taken a lot of flak for his decisions on arsenic and Kyoto, for example...
Serbanescu said that her writing process contributed to the unattributed quotes. She said that she begins writing by finding sources on the Internet, and then constructing a "skeleton" of the article she intends to write from those Internet sources...