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...rocks from the Devonian Age, which date back 375 million years. The organism’s gills identify it as a fish, but it lacks the piscatorial characteristic of a neck that is connected to the shoulder girdle, Jenkins said. The fish’s front fin contains identifiable wrist bones and features that resemble fingers, he added...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof Reels In Big Evolutionary Catch | 4/7/2006 | See Source »

...Kilo” nails a successful drug dealer’s paranoia, and the guns-n-drugs romp “R.A.G.U.” turns ugly when Raekwon breaks his wrist (he says, wonderfully, “I fucked up my writin’ hand”) and an accomplice shoots himself in the groin...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ghostface Killah | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

...well. The ribs interlock, moreover, unlike a fish's, implying they were able to bear fishapod's weight-an unnecessary trait in a fish. It had a neck-most unfishlike. And, most surprising of all, its pectoral fins included bones that look like nothing less than a primitive wrist and fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fish with Fingers? | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...Spiegel, associate chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, hypnotizes Parkinson's sufferers during the implantation of deep-brain electrodes--a process that requires tremulous patients to remain conscious and calm. He has also coaxed children into imagining that a balloon tied to their wrist will fly them to their favorite places, a hypnotic technique that has lessened anxiety in pediatric patients undergoing bladder catheterizations. In Iowa, Schulz-Stbner hypnotizes patients to reduce pain and anxiety while they receive presurgery nerve blocks, such as epidurals. He finds that the calming effects of hypnosis often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Mind over Medicine | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...handedly just four-and-a-half minutes into the contest. While on the power play, he received the puck from Zach Miskovic on the right just past the blue line and then deked past a Harvard defender. Once in the center, he had an open lane, and his quick wrist-shot deflected off a post and into the net behind Daigneau.DeVergilio also added another goal to put the Saints up 3-0 at the start of the third period.“We knew coming in that he was a shifty forward and that he could score...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Opener, Crimson Comes Out Flat | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

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