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Last night, the board gave a mild slap on the wrist to 15 local business owners--among them the owners of The Hasty Pudding Club and Christy's in Harvard Square--who failed to attend a summer training session on underage alcohol consumption...
...rays and photographs of the damaged skull, an alternative hypothesis began to emerge: that the baby had been suffering from a fractured skull for some weeks and a jolt was enough to restart the bleeding that finally killed him. Evidence of a three-week-old fracture of the wrist as well as signs of apparent healing of the skull fracture appeared to support the scenario. The argument seemed so compelling that most observers thought the medical testimony for the prosecution and the defense canceled each other out--or that at least the defense had introduced a sufficient element of doubt...
Individuals and clubs have reportedly taken extra precautions to avoid drawing the attention of the Harvard police and the administration. For example, over the weekend, the Owl, a final club, issued alcohol-eligibility wrist bands to guests who produced identification showing they were of legal drinking...
...techniques are like two sides of a coin. In the first, Black applies a mild electric current to a part of the body--the wrist, for example--and then touches electrodes to exposed brain areas. It is like an electrician testing a circuit: wherever he picks up current, he knows he has a live connection, indicating that the tumor is entwined with eloquent brain and cannot just be cut out. Otherwise, he is touching inert tumor tissue. Conversely, with direct stimulation, Black applies the current to the tumor and sees if the body twitches in response...
...JonBenet had a red-ink drawing of a heart in the palm of her left hand. Her blond hair was done up in two ponytails, leading some observers to speculate that she had never gone to bed that Christmas night. She had a yellow metal bracelet on her right wrist with the inscription "JonBenet" and the date "12/25/96," presumably a Christmas gift that also marked the last day she was seen alive. She wore long underwear over her white panties. Both of these garments revealed traces of urine--a common physiological response to strangulation--and the panties bore what...