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Galluccio—who has twice made a bid for a state representative seat, losing once by a razor-thin margin of fewer than 100 votes—would bear the onus of three losses in state elections if today’s election doesn?...
...shed sharper light on the problem, Cooper and King obtained the original X rays and took them to a medical examiner, a radiologist and a neurologist. The experts quickly spotted more clues. Abnormalities in the thin bones above Tut's eye sockets may be the kind of fractures that can occur when the head strikes the ground during a backward fall and the brain snaps forward. What's more, the vertebrae in Tut's neck were fused--a sign of a musculoskeletal malformation called Klippel-Feil syndrome. People with Klippel-Feil cannot turn their heads without moving the entire torso...
...hauling and dumping the stuff, which just keeps coming in good times and bad. The business "doesn't tend to have technological leaps," says Bill Wolpin, editorial director of the journal Waste Age. "It's an industry that's still struggling with computers." Indeed, high-tech gimmickry is exceedingly thin on the ground at Waste Expo; four lonely exhibitors huddle forlornly in the "Technology Pavilion," fully half a mile from the main entrance and conveniently adjacent to the "Medical Waste Pavilion." Tracey Anderson of CFA, which markets a computer program to track truck-fleet maintenance, bravely tries to spin...
...Villagers in Bena will tell you they are Christians, but their faith seems a thin veneer over more ancient rites and beliefs. The steep-pitched thatched roofs of their teakwood huts are topped with the bhaga and ngadhu, totems symbolizing female and male. The former looks like a miniature of the distinctive huts' roofline, the latter a kind of umbrella. "The bhaga is a symbol of a room that holds everything a family owns. It means fertility and hope for an abundant harvest," says Dara. "The ngadhu symbolizes man, who protects the family." A concatenation of jagged megaliths, some more...
With their hold on the House razor thin, you'd think Republicans would be focused only on keeping Democrats from taking control in the November election. Before getting down to business, though, they have to settle a nasty squabble among conservative and moderate activists in their ranks. The Club For Growth, which calls itself a Ronald Reagan-style pro-tax cut group that raises money for conservative GOP candidates, plans to pump more than $100,000 into a Maryland primary Sept. 10 in order to oust moderate Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrist, who's seeking a seventh term. Alarmed that their...