Word: skins
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...full zebra pelt mounted on the wall. The ostentatious collection of blue butterflies provides examples of a hue more brilliant than even a Mark Rothko painting; the display of iridescent beetles looks like a showcase for some Egyptian-revival scarab jewels; and the images of the flaps of skin on lizards beneath the chins of males (known as dewlaps) contain rich colors and bumpy textures more complete and expressive than a painting by Roy Lichtenstein. Some of the most fun elements are in the various media boxes spread throughout the exhibit. One for the zebra explores how the types...
...their hands and mix their blood. It's a familiar childhood ritual, sweetened by naive redundancy: How much closer than siblings can you be? The bond between this sister and brother turns out to be a love story--pure, but as painful as the touch of steel to skin...
...also make it cool. (See also CSI.) This is especially true when it comes to the bioscience conundrums that make Fringe's sci-fi so literally intimate. On this new X-Files, the truth is not just out there. It's in here--encrypted in our bodies, under our skin, in our very DNA. If only we could figure out what we are trying to tell ourselves...
...over middle America will come after his inauguration. If we’re lucky, he will prove himself to be as measured and reasonable a president as he has been a candidate. And perhaps experience will convince the good people of Levittown what I could not: that, despite his skin color and his Harvard education, “the Muslim” understands them, too.Elise Liu ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Cabot House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...
...Given that the very purpose of the boo-boys is to get under the skin of French officialdom, a more effective response may be to feign indifference in order to rob the slight of its intended impact. In fact, a significant portion of the booing has little to do with politics at all - it's the reaction of white French soccer fans to the parlous state of the national team, and failure of an unresponsive establishment to rectify it by firing the widely loathed national coach, Raymond Domenech...