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...slick. I then removed the top half of the mortician's wax above the cut, and built up more wax along the top of her real hairline leading into the soaped-out area. I applied pink and white makeup to her head to make it look like a skull, added coagulated sections of blood and coated it with Vaseline to give it a gooey quality...
...slick. I then removed the top half of the mortician's wax above the cut, and built up more wax along the top of her real hairline leading into the soaped-out area. I applied pink and white makeup to her head to make it look like a skull, added coagulated sections of blood and coated it with Vaseline to give it a gooey quality...
...friend, could easily have supplied some bones. One bit of evidence: a Teilhard letter written years later to the British scholar Kenneth Oakley, in which the priest commits what Gould calls a "fatal error." Teilhard says that Dawson personally brought him to the site where the second skull was found. "This cannot be," says Gould, because Dawson "discovered" the skull in 1915, after Teilhard had been mustered into the French army and shipped to the front...
Despite its occasional failures at inopportune moments, the back is a marvel of biological engineering. It is not only the body's principal scaffolding, on which the skull, ribs, pelvis and shoulder bones are all anchored. It also serves as the major conduit for the bundles of nerves-the spinal cord-that link the brain with other parts...
...body. When doctors speak of the back, they usually mean the spinal column. Sweeping from the base of the skull to the pelvis in a graceful yet extremely strong doubleS shape, this natural architectural masterpiece consists of 33 building blocks, called vertebrae. So artfully are they sculpted that they fit neatly into one another. An intricate system of muscles, tendons and ligaments keeps the column from collapsing. The lower portion of the spine, known as the lumbosacral region, is the site of the pain that bothers most people. It can withstand pressures of hundreds of pounds. Yet the entire column...