Word: skulls
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...deceased appeared to be a male Caucasian--that seemed clear from the long, narrow skull and prominent nose. He'd been dead for decades, at least, and probably longer. James Chatters, an anthropologist based in Kennewick, Washington, could tell that much from just a quick examination of the cranium and broken jawbone the coroner brought him last July. But Chatters wanted to know more. So he went to the banks of the Columbia River, where two college students had come across the skull, and managed to find most of the skeleton. The arm and leg bones suggested that the dead...
...refused to answer the essay questions on summer vacations or favorite pets, instead writing on how inane the topics were; although an initial grader flunked him, the supervising grader gave him a perfect score, the same he had got on his other entrance exams. At Yale (Phi Beta Kappa, Skull and Bones) he wrote a noted essay, "Is Lenin a Marxist?"; an editorial in the Yale Daily News calling for abolition of the football team; and a scholarly paper arguing for America's entry into World War II: "I believe in the dignity of the individual, in government...
That case is hard to make when even abortion opponents admit that few hospitals perform third-trimester abortions and fewer still the controversial procedure in which a doctor removes a fetus feetfirst, then makes an incision in the baby's head to suck out the brain, collapse the skull and extract the head from the birth canal. In many such abortions, the fetus is so severely deformed or the pregnancy so complicated that carrying the child to term would threaten the life or health of the mother. Here lies the core of the fight: Clinton supports...
Zamora brandished a barbell weight and smashed it with a sickening thud on the younger girl's head, according to police. To the horror of her attackers, Jones crawled out through the car window. But the blow had fractured her skull and lacerated her brain. She staggered only a little way to a barbed-wire gate before collapsing. "I knew," Graham told police, "I couldn't leave the key witness to our crime alive." Armed with a Russian-made Makarov pistol, he fired twice. One bullet caught her right between the eyes. The entire episode was over in about...
...Singapore's President Ong Teng Cheong, suffering from a lymphoma between his brain and skull for which he'd been treated back home, went to Stanford medical center last December for post-treatment evaluation...