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...small boy, perhaps seven or eight years old, in front of the Daralsalum Hotel where international journalists had taken rooms. He'd been shot through the waist at close range by a PK light machine gun. The 7.62mm round travelled up through his torso and exited through his skull, leaving a hollowed shell where his little head was supposed...
...procedure involved opening the cervix followed by the baby being pulled out feet first and delivering the legs, body, shoulders and arms. When the baby’s head is lodged in the cervix, the doctor takes curved scissors and inserts the scissors into the base of the skull and spreads the scissors to enlarge the opening. The doctor then removes the scissors, inserts a suction catheter into the hole and vacuums out the content of the skull which causes it to collapse, and the rest of the baby is pulled out of the cervix. It is important for readers...
...accompanied by her two Dalmatians. She spent the morning crawling along the slope of the nearby gorge but found very little until just before noon, when she noticed a scrap of enormously thick bone protruding from beneath the surface. She instantly realized that it was part of a hominid skull--and that two teeth were embedded in the rock just above it. Elated, she drove back to camp to tell my father Louis. As he remembered it, she rushed in crying, "I've got him! I've got him! I've got him!" What my mother Mary had discovered were...
...arrived at Olduvai a day after the skull was found. My parents' simple camp seemed to radiate the excitement of the moment, and I don't recall ever seeing my parents in such high spirits. The skull that my mother recovered was in many pieces, but she and my father were able to piece it back together. It was the first really significant find at Olduvai; indeed, it was the only well-preserved fossil hominid to have been found outside South Africa, several thousand miles to the south. Unlike the South African sites, which lacked distinct geological layers, Olduvai offered...
...display his latest work: bizarrely beautiful etchings of Angkorian temples where rioting fig-tree roots pulsate and twist in freakish homage to the stone gods. "Surreal, obviously," says Swaffield. Obviously. "I've started messing about with robotics, too," he continues, producing a clockwork cat's skull that skitters across his desk on scary plastic-doll legs. "And have you seen my Babies in Bottles series...