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...wouldn't move. Miyamoto waved at the incoming train repeatedly, but it was an express traveling at nearly 40 mph - he never had a chance. Though he managed to protect the woman, who survived with a broken pelvis, Miyamoto was struck full by the train. He suffered a broken skull and would linger in a coma for nearly a week before dying on Feb. 12, leaving behind a wife and a 20-year...
...University of California, Berkeley, in the 1940s, the new warning was tested to ensure it's universally understood. Starting in 2001, researchers showed a series of motifs to 1,650 adults and children, many of them illiterate, in 11 different countries. The red background conveys danger; a skull and crossbones and a trefoil emanating rays warns of a threat to life; a running man tells observers to keep away. "We can't teach the world about radiation," says Carolyn MacKenzie, a radiation specialist who helped develop the new symbol. "But, for the price of a sticker, we can help save...
...that if you want to become president of the United States, don’t go to Harvard. The last legitimate Harvard alumnus to become president was John F. Kennedy ’40; George W. Bush may be a Harvard Business School graduate, but given his membership in Skull and Bones and the ever-popular “Blame Yale” t-shirt, he hardly seems to count as a Harvard alum. As a good portion of the last presidential election was focused on which candidate had the lowest grade point average from Yale, it seems that national...
...Here's some ghoulish Gould from panels reprinted in Masters of American Comics, we see the detective's hair burned to the scalp; he's shot in the forehead by a .22 rifle bullet; he's left to starve to death, his own prop a smirking skull. This is the text in a Sunday splash from 1943: "A brawny arm is hurled forward! With the speed of lightning, a leather thong wraps itself around the detective's neck - he chokes. His hands struggle toward his throat. His body is yanked backward. The pain is excruciating! The whip butt rises...
...weakness that Fox lets his audiences see, like his characters' crying bouts or the fact that his voice is a little small for his body. These things make you think he's a guy just like you, if you were a little more heroic and had a skull made of granite...