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...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...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weekend Warriors: Club Treks To See Siamese Skeletons, Murder Sites | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...rather say I saw Phineas Gage’s skull or a castle this weekend than that I woke up in a pool of my own vomit on someone’s floor,” he says. “There’s also an interesting thing about traveling and going to somewhere...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weekend Warriors: Club Treks To See Siamese Skeletons, Murder Sites | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...doctors pronounced him "the luckiest guy ever," and Patrick Lawler, 23, isn't about to disagree. The construction worker was building a house in Colorado when his nail gun backfired, driving a 4-in. nail through the roof of his mouth and into his skull. Amazingly, Lawler didn't realize anything was amiss until six days later when he went to a dentist with what he thought was a nagging toothache. It took surgeons four hours to extract the nail, which had penetrated his brain. The uninsured Lawler is expected to make a full recovery but now must contend with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ouch! That's Gotta Hurt! | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

...with a nuanced awareness of things. He enjoys the increments of summer sunlight or the nice construction of a simple lunch box. He also spots the looks that pass between people when they notice his forehead. A Vietnam War injury has left him with a deep indentation in his skull and a messy plug of scar tissue. The wound has all but deprived him of the power of speech. Anytime he tries to talk, the best he can do is bark out one or two syllables. "I gave up explaining years ago," he says, in the gently lyrical interior monologue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moving Beyond Words | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

Ammann discovered a strange skull with the dimensions of a chimpanzee's but with an odd, prominent crest like a gorilla's. Motion-detecting cameras in the forest caught what looked like immense chimpanzees, and a photograph purchased from poachers showed hunters posing with an animal estimated to be twice the size of an ordinary chimp. Ammann measured a fecal dropping three times as big as chimp dung and footprints as large as or larger than a gorilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Apes Of The Congo | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

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