Word: skulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wandering into a parking lot after the show, Deadheads were once again displaying brightly colored T-shirts. We examined several, before settling on an intricate design with a Grateful Dead skull and lightening bolt on it. The police soon began to close the Deadheads down, however, and we made our way back to the "Dead Bus." The groupies packed up, ready to head for New Jersey, site of the Dead's next concert...
Cesare Lombroso, a high-minded 19th century Italian physician, is remembered for his series of skull measurements purporting to show that criminals have smaller brains than law-abiding citizens. Few criminology textbooks go to print without elaborate coverage of Lombroso's folly, a reminder to students that nurture, not nature, is responsible for criminal behavior. Now, however, two prominent Harvard professors, James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein, argue that Lombroso was on the right track: no one is born a criminal, but many are born with "constitutional factors" that predispose them to serious crime. "There is mounting evidence," the professors...
...communicated eyewitness report from one shopper, a woman standing at the front of a liquor store line in Moscow was knocked off her feet by a surging crowd when the shop doors opened. Before she could get to her feet, the spike heel of another woman shopper pierced her skull, killing...
...strands of barbed wire and hung with warning signs. (Some days, however, its gate has stood wide open.) The source of all the trouble is a ratty compound of cinder blocks and sheet metal, pink clapboard and silver tanks. One large white building is marked only by a tiny skull-and-crossbones label on the door. A few yards outside the site one afternoon in September, four men and a woman in boots and rubbery white suits used a huge tread-mounted pump to dig out a 10-ft. plug of earth for testing by the EPA. Their gas masks...
Elesh is not present on the crania and several teeth are missing from both, according to observers. The temple of the wax covered skull had been crushed and only the law, nasal and eyes remained intact on the second bone structure...