Word: chesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...correspondent Peter Hawthorne, a resident of South Africa for 30 years, has perhaps the most visceral connection to the story: while covering the unrest after Mandela's 1990 release from jail, he was struck with police bird shot, and the pellets are still embedded in his chest. "South Africans swing between moods of deep despair and cautious hope," says Hawthorne. "This week hope is again ascendant." It seems optimism comes from a place too deep for any firearm to reach...
...JULY 16, 1978, FARROW BEgan his day as usual, unlocking the cabinet containing the knives. Without warning, Bobby reached past him, grabbing two knives. "No, Shaw, no!" Farrow yelled. Bobby Shaw stabbed him in the chest and ran into the hallway. Farrow chased him, then collapsed and died. Shaw was subdued and badly beaten. "I saw him the next day in the hospital ward," says Ruby. "His head was so big. It was twice the size of a normal head, like a watermelon." Only last December did Shaw offer a version of what happened. It was the voices...
...created its dinosaurs inside out: a simplified skeleton, then skin covering, then coloration, then the fine tuning with wrinkles, scales, dirt. "You see skin moving over bones and over muscles," says ILM's Dennis Muren, who directed the project. "When the brachiosaurus walks, the weight of its chest makes it swing back and forth." Dippe believes the process is so adroit that, "if we had real dinosaurs, we'd probably still do it this way. Our animals don't get tired or hungry...
...fact that dinosaurs were warm-blooded should be especially obvious, says Bakker, because they were known to have had chest cavities large enough to hold huge hearts, like birds. Additional evidence is found in their migratory patterns. "There's no question that dinosaurs got as far north and as far south as there was land," says Bakker. "What should have been the tip-off is that the ones you find in the far north are the same ones you find in the south, so they could live in a wide range of climates. Also...
...bones. I see excessive force here. The picture I see is that of a beaten man who is not combative or aggressive." He faulted each defendant: Koon for failing to intervene, Wind for six "brutal kicks," Briseno for stomping on King's neck, and Powell for a fusillade of chest blows that he termed "the most flagrant violation...