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...intact pelvis: generally, a woman's has a wider opening to permit childbirth. Height can be calculated, within an inch or two, from the lengths of the major arm or leg bones. Race can be indicated by the texture of the hair or from certain features of the skull, among them the shape of the eye sockets and the spacing of the nasal apertures...
...problem. Because bone growth in humans occurs according to a more or less predictable timetable, forensic experts can usually tell the age of a skeleton of a child or young adult. But most of the skeletal changes are complete by about age 45, when the flat bones of the skull have fused...
...skull holds clues. Photosuperimposition, in which video cameras are used to merge an image of the skull with a photograph of the suspected dead person's face, can often reveal a matching structure. The face can be reconstructed on the skull with some degree of accuracy by applying layers of clay...
Americans once tended to treat high art as a refuge from mass culture. Let Hollywood exude whatever schlock it wanted; let the Box leak its eight hours of imagery a day into the average viewer's skull -- there would always be the Manet or the Rothko in the museum to reorient the distracted eye. The demands (and rewards) of painting were one thing, those of mass media another...
...Jose Antonio de Mello, assistant director of the Sao Paulo police forensic team. There emerged some dentures and a few earth-stained bones, some still covered by a pair of rotting trousers. And as journalists scribbled and photographers clicked, De Mello, like some macabre Hamlet, held up a skull...