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...that scheme. One poem starts: "Alas, alas, I have been betrayed by my fleeting days ? " and concludes: "There is no harm equal to that of wasted time." The rest of the page is covered with odd figures by himself and pupils: a giraffe, a crab, a grasshopper, a skull. As the show travels through the artist's long life, the drawings, always impressive for their sheer brilliance, become increasingly personal: less part of a process and more meditations on profound themes. Studies for a Deposition, ca. 1523 shows the disposal of Christ's body as a laborious, undignified business...
...Muslim reaction to the Danish cartoons. Muslims, they huffed, were imposing their backward dogmas on the liberal West. It turns out Harvard’s conservatives are just as imposing and just as medieval. The irony, as the writer Arundhati Roy once put it, is enough to make a skull smile...
...author of the study, Lucina Suarez, who works with the Texas Department of State Health Services, said the implications of NTDs can be fatal. “With anencephaly, the cranium fails to close. This is a very serious defect, as the brain is not enclosed in the skull,” she said. Spina bifida, or the failure of spinal cord closure, is a more common result of NTDs than anencephaly, according to Suarez. “Among those who survive childhood [spina bifida], a majority are affected by hydrocephalus, paralysis, and lack of bowel and bladder control...
...lane blacktop crosses a cattle guard into a wild expanse of golden scrub grass. A few trailers and prefab houses, a collection of junked cars and a gas station that sells Spam and soda pop--such is the homeland of the Native American tribe known as the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes. At their peak, the Goshutes numbered 20,000. Today only a dozen of the band's 121 members live on the 18,000-acre reservation; the rest have scattered across the West in search of a better life...
...this beleaguered outpost finds itself caught up in an escalating battle over the future of atomic power in the U.S. Last month the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a license for a $3.1 billion project that would make the Skull Valley reservation the nation's biggest nuclear-waste holding site, a temporary parking lot for 44,000 tons of highly radioactive spent fuel now being stored at nuclear power plants nationwide. For utilities, it could solve what has been a vexing problem. For tribal officials, the advantages are tangible: as much as $100 million in fees to be paid over...