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...true stories broke to rival their worst propaganda. On Oct. 25, the German daily Bild published German soldiers' snapshots depicting up to six of them posing with human bones, possibly those of Afghan war victims. In one photo, taken near Kabul in 2003, a grinning soldier is holding a skull next to his bared genitals. A TV station later aired another set, [an error occurred while processing this directive] suggesting this macabre pastime may be more than a onetime occurrence. In Germany, the images have triggered acute embarrassment and outrage. Chancellor Angela Merkel pronounced them "disgusting" and promised a full...
...their feet to go free A woman's intestines gleam in the sun after she's smacked by a truck A Japanese tourist loses an eyeball to a blowtorch-wielding American businessman A man fights an ax-wielding mutant with a flagpole he pulls from a corpse's skull An unlucky spelunker ends up standing in a pool of blood that reaches to her chin A naked woman strung up in a meat locker is sprayed with cold water that hardens...
...tweed suits, wool scarves, and the pièce de résistance: silk ties, in every color. After all, there’s nothing like neckwear embroidered with tiny baseball players, cocker spaniels, or clowns to encourage people to take you seriously. All patterns, even the hipster-approved skull and crossbones tie, are J. Press originals. Black explains, “We’ve always carried the skull tie. Some people wear it for corporate raiding. It’s also an old medical symbol.” An important clarification: “But it has nothing...
...paleontologists have accumulated more and more fossils, they have compiled data on a long list of anatomical features, including body shape, bipedalism, brain size, the shape of the skull and face, the size of canine teeth, and opposable thumbs. Using comparative analyses of these attributes, along with dating that shows when various features appeared or vanished, they have constructed increasingly elaborate family trees that show the relationships between apes, ancient hominids and us. Along the way they learned, among other things, that Darwin, even with next to no actual data, was close to being right in his intuition that apes...
...once a civilian, now a killing machine. "There?s an old saying," Nguyen adds. "If you?re a good soldier, you?ll be a bad civilian." Sometimes the transition is fatal. When Jeff Lucey came back from Iraq, his loving family noticed the change, his withdrawal inside his troubled skull. Within a few months, he had put a loop in a garden hose and hanged himself. Only death ended his nightmares...