Word: skulled
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...physics - a collision that is becoming scarily common in the worlds of athletics and organized sports. The human body is a sturdy one, but only up to a point, able to withstand collisions of about 15 m.p.h., which is about as fast as an average person can run. The skull is designed to be especially rugged - the permanent home and helmet for the brain - but even it can't take a much more serious hit. The problem is that over the centuries, we've developed all manner of ways to exceed a mere 15 m.p.h. creep. (Read a TIME cover...
...most common collision-related head injuries is a concussion, which occurs when the head moves at high speed and stops suddenly as it strikes a hard object. The brain, which is snug but not completely stationary inside the head, may continue moving, colliding with the inside of the skull. This leads to swelling or bruising or - much worse - bleeding. A brain-bleed is immediately life-threatening, but swelling is less so and may not even be evident for a little while, which is what appears to have happened in Richardson's case...
...flair for the macabre - in one scene, a man who has been tortured by Red Guards commits suicide by driving a nail through his skull - but there's humor in between the horror. Having made a fortune trading scrap, Baldy decides to launch a contest to find the country's most beautiful virgin. The "Inaugural National Virgin Beauty Competition" is a punchy spoof of the Beijing Olympics, complete with salivating sponsors, a city leveled and rebuilt for out-of-town guests and a contestant who wins by sleeping with the judges. Portraits of contemporary China are rarely sharper or more...
...believe strongly that his spirit was never released.' HARLYN GERONIMO, great-grandson of the famous Apache warrior, who is suing Yale University's élite secret society Skull and Bones, charging that its members robbed his great-grandfather's grave...
...happened at Yale these past few days: Geronimo’s heirs have decided to sue Skull and Bones, Yale has announced that it will delay building its two new Colleges (i.e. Houses), and Yale’s administration has announced that staff layoffs are inevitable. Which raises the question of which will come first: Harvard admitting that layoffs will most likely occur, Dunster’s walkthroughs and Lowell’s inexplicably placed hallways and fire-doors getting gutted out and redesigned, or the Fly coming out and admitting that they’ve been hiding Geronimo?...