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Outside, Mather residents, decked out in red bandannas and black shirts with a skull and bones running across the front, chanted loudly as freshmen approached Memorial Hall...
...specific regions at the surface, or cortex. And because the treatment does not trigger a seizure (as electroconvulsive therapy does), there's no need for muscle relaxants or anesthesia and no problem with memory loss. Patients undergoing magnetic stimulation usually feel only a kind of tapping on their skull as the current starts to flow...
...their horror, scientists found that some of the specimens had been severely damaged; a pelvis was broken (possibly as a result of being dropped); a mandible had been snapped and crudely repaired; and the highly important solitary skull appeared to have had pieces rubbed, scratched and broken off it. It's now alleged that the damage was most likely caused by someone making a cast with a special substance that is painted or sprayed on and hardens into a rubbery mold. Equally infuriating to scientists is the possibility that the supposed illicit casting may have altered the skull...
...Brown used computerized tomography (CT) scans and computer imagery to make the Morwood team's cast of the skull. He claims the crude cast-making method that damaged the skull is illegal. "It's a bit like some scholar went to the British Museum and stole the Rosetta Stone and made a copy of it, trashed the original in doing it - then had the only copy,'' he says. Jacob denies that any damage was done to the bones in his lab - or even that a cast has been made. "(The Australians) blame us for everything," he says. "They think they...
...Brown believes he has proof that a cast was, in fact made. There are witnesses to the process in Jacob's lab, he claims, and part of the returned skull is covered in "red gunk" consistent with casting. He says there could be several reasons for making an illegal cast. Copies could fetch up to $5,000 from museums abroad. Jacob "might just want this copy for his private collection," he says. "But he's gone to a hell of a lot of trouble for something he's claiming is not important...