Word: skulls
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CAPTAIN ROBERT MARASCO, WHO pulled the trigger, said the bullet that killed Thai Khac Chuyen made the sound of a "tire puncture" and splattered "blood, skull and bits of brain" on him and the other two Green Berets in the boat. Undaunted, the trio rolled the body of the alleged North Vietnamese double agent into the murky waters off Nha Trang -- and into presumed obscurity. Instead, this 1969 real-life slaying triggered a Vietnam War scandal second only to the My Lai killings, and one of infinitely more complex moral overtones...
Contemplate for a moment a tangle of seaweed tossed up on the shore. This is what a neuron looks like, surrounded by a thicket of tiny tendrils that serve as communications channels. Now multiply that neuron 100 billion times. Crammed into the skull of every human individual are as many neurons as there are stars in the Milky Way. Each one of these receives input from about 10,000 other neurons in the brain and sends messages to a thousand more. The combinatorial possibilities are staggering. The cerebral cortex alone boasts 1 million billion connections, a number so large, marvels...
...more moments, he delayed facing his awesome responsibility. Then he sighed and removed the neural-input cap that fitted snugly over his skull and had enabled him to call up his distant past. Like all spacers, Captain Singh belonged to the "Bald Is Beautiful" school, if only because wigs were a nuisance in zero gravity. The social historians were still staggered by the fact that one invention, the portable "Brainman," could make bare heads the norm within a single decade. Not even quick-change skin coloring, or the lens- corrective laser shaping which had abolished eyeglasses, had made such...
...commitment" from Yeltsin on ICBM missiles. .Can you say coaching? He may have overcome stiffness on the campaign trail, but last night was worse than anything from 1988. Stock Phrases .Quoted Ross Perot. .Otherwise, he managed to make Quayle sound eloquent. Did they put a metal plate in his skull in Vietnam? ."Raise your taxes..."--18 times. "Truth" or "trust--15 times ."Experience"--Four times. Family--7 times (including 2 references to gang families} .The word "change"--12 times ."Trickle-down"-- five times ."Bill Clinton and I..."--10 times ."Y'all"--Only once ."Our people right here"--Three times Humor...
...jumped from the tree, a guard fired three bullets at me, and I fell to the ground. "He could have killed you," I heard one guard say to the other, who answered, "I killed him instead." They heaved the next two bodies down by their feet and hands. The skull of one of them burst as it hit the rock, and his brain splattered my shirt. I was lying on my back and could see what they were doing up there. I watched them sling the bodies into the canyon; it all took about an hour...