Word: teeth
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...continuing to employ hundreds of victims of alcoholism, heart attack and stroke. One of Western's lawyers, William John Kennedy, had argued that the age-60 rule was based on safety considerations. Predicting passengers will be at greater risk, he said bitterly, "We've been kicked in the teeth for our concerns. It will be a cold day in hell before any airlines concern themselves with senility risks...
Thus clues as to whether the skeleton from Embu belonged to Mengele, who would have been 67 when the body was buried, or to a man ten or even 15 years younger, must be gleaned from studying subtle degenerative changes in the teeth and microscopic changes in bone tissue...
...Teeth provide important clues. Their alignment, the shapes of the roots, the patterns of wear and dental work are different in each individual. "It may be one tooth that puts the whole story together," says Snow, a forensic anthropologist from Norman, Okla. The rest of the skeleton can also yield information. Gunshot wounds, fractures and other major injuries often leave lifelong traces. So can diseases such as syphilis and tuberculosis and bone disorders like osteomyelitis, an infection from which Mengele is said to have suffered...
...availability and quality of old documents, dental charts, X rays and medical records. "This is the decisive point and, I think, the weak point in the Mengele case," observes Rainer Knussmann, an anthropologist at the University of Hamburg. Mengele's 1938 dental records (a written description of the teeth, not including X rays), received last week from West Germany, proved to be "imprecise" and "incomplete," according to Ayrton Martini, director of the Sao Paulo state police scientific department. Also, there is scant information on a pelvic fracture Mengele is said to have suffered in a wartime motorcycle accident. The injury...
...about two years after Pedro joined the household, a visitor left a newspaper in the house that featured a picture of Dr. Josef Mengele as he looked at Auschwitz. Despite the 20-year interval, said Stammer, she recognized in the picture the gap between Pedro's top front teeth, and the bent head with which he gave his one-sided smile. Later that day, she said, she showed her lodger the photo. He turned white. That evening he admitted that he was indeed Mengele...