Word: skulled
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...Wednesday, before the regatta began, a sculler was seriously injured when his one-person skull was hit by an eight-man shell, the Boston Globe reported Thursday...
When he’s not playing the role of living legend on the Harvard campus, Nash is running Soft Skull Press out of New York City and promoting his upcoming book, Organs of Emotion, a collaboration with visual artist Douglas G. Fitch ’81-’82. He describes the book as “extremely mixed-media. It involves architecture, it involves food, it involves sculpture, painting. It’s the intersection of science and art.” Nash is also developing what he describes as a “huge fucking...
...their heads sell hand-embroidered crafts on the sidewalk. Teenage Lisu girls in their traditional vivid tunics and black trousers?accessorized with frilly pink socks and plastic sandals?use their motorcycles as shopping carts for the fresh produce sold by Shan and northern Thai curbside vendors. A robed and skull-capped young man peddles authentic chocolate croissants under a hand-lettered "Muslim Homemade" banner. His cousin, who presides over the adjacent gun-and-tackle shop?which also sells herbal tea?is barely visible behind her black chador...
...anatomist found nothing suspicious. More than 40 years later, however, in 1968, a University of Liverpool researcher received permission to X-ray the mummy and discovered some intriguing clues: there was a sliver of bone floating in the brain cavity and a dense area at the base of the skull that may have been a blood clot, suggesting a severe--perhaps deliberately lethal--blow to the back of the head...
...everyone thinks the look is smart, as this and the other skullcap styles tend to be too lightly padded. "It's like having a fake fire extinguisher," says David Thom of the Head Protection Research Laboratory. "Sure, it will keep you from scraping your skull, but it won't protect your brain." --By Clare Demerse