Word: stab
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More anomalies piled up. The mummy had gas in its abdomen and pelvis, suggesting faulty preservation techniques. Its brain had been extracted through the mouth, while Egyptian mummies had theirs removed through the nose. An incision in the abdomen looked suspiciously like a stab wound. Some of the woman's vertebrae were dislocated or fractured. All of her teeth were missing. Grammatical errors in the cuneiform inscriptions suggested the engraver knew modern Persian. The mummy's gold ornaments weighed only 15 grams. "No princess could wear such poor jewelry," says the Karachi archaeology department...
...Other Russian companies are establishing headquarters in the West. Alexander Galitsky, who honed his technical skills on Russian spy satellites, took his first stab at entrepreneurship in launching Elvis+, a company specializing in wireless computer connectivity. When he created Trustworks Systems (www.trustworks.com), which makes network security solutions, Dyson advised him to set up shop in the West to better access financial markets. Now based in Amsterdam, Trustworks has raised $23 million, most of it Western capital...
...tropical oceans harbor more than 500 species of cone snails, predatory creatures that stab their prey with harpoons loaded with a paralytic poison. Long prized by shell collectors, they are being scrutinized by drug hunters for potential treatments for neurological and neuromuscular disorders...
...Holding a fish previously caught by Gerald Ford b) Hypnotized by the haunting voice of Billy Bass c) Showing off a redfish he caught with his father d) The first man to accidentally stab a fish in the mouth...
...Seeing the house that Hillary Clinton is considering - a fairytale-pointy, creamy Queen Anne pile on O Street that I passed ten thousand times when I was a child - I find that I am obscurely offended. I feel a stab of nostalgia. Georgetown is the only place where I am instinctively at home, even though I have been away for many years. I also feel irrationally possessive about Georgetown, having grown up there - when it was quaint and a lot cheaper, when working-class whites and blacks lived side by side with people from the State Department...