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...clothing. Those that came from the Iceman's head were only 9 cm (3 1/2 in.) long -- evidence that humans had been cutting their hair far earlier than anthropologists had believed. More mysterious were the well-defined tattoos: groups of blue parallel lines on the Iceman's lower spine, a cross behind the left knee and stripes on the right ankle. "Since all these tattoos were covered by clothing," says Spindler, "they must have had an inner meaning for the man and not have had the function of identification for other tribes." Some scientists suggest that the designs might have...
...reconfigured the landscape in countless capricious ways, miraculously taking only one life. Rather than rupture a single fault line, it swiped a 70-km (45-mile) diagonal slash through several, at one point heaving up a raw ridge of rock roughly the size and shape of a stegosaurus' spine...
Shakhrai, who is trying to prove that the party, which Yeltsin banned last year, was an illegal institution even under Soviet law, emerged from the smashed car with only a bruised shoulder. His bodyguard, who was thrown through the windshield, broke both legs, and his chauffeur suffered an injured spine. The mystery driver sped away, leading some of Shakhrai's colleagues to suspect foul play. "We don't know yet whether it was just an ordinary traffic accident," a spokesman said. As the investigation began, Shakhrai, who dismissed the assassination theory, returned to work...
Weil "took a major dive" last summer and bruised her spine. Mello wears a jagged scar on his neck obtained recently when he skated through a clothes line in a nearby alley. Victor Luke, 28, sports, wounds on both elbows and knees in various stages of healing...
Judi Bari, a member of the radical group Earth First!, is still hurting from the explosion in 1990 of a pipe bomb in her Subaru station wagon. The Oakland blast left her with a paralyzed right foot and a dislocated spine. Earth First! is known for tactics that sometimes endanger the safety of loggers, though Bari insists that she is against violence. Authorities arrested her on suspicion that she knowingly transported the bomb, but no charges were brought. Bari claims that officials have failed to investigate the case seriously, and has filed a civil rights suit against the Oakland police...