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...night around 11 p.m., this man would lie down behind the large concrete slab decorating the Leverett House lawn, cover himself with blue, turquoise and tan blankets and fall asleep. Usually I would only half-notice him, except for the cold nights when I’d feel a stab of regret as I pulled my shade down to my radiator. In the mornings, while I was checking my e-mail or combing my hair, he would wake up between 8 and 9 a.m., stumble around a bit, urinate, pick up his bag and walk away. The man became...
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...