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Investigators found that the 19-year-old Tut was missing his left kneecap and had suffered a grave leg fracture that may have become fatally infected. His odd skull shape was genetic, not a deformity. He also had a badly impacted wisdom tooth and a broken right ankle that appears to have been encased in a sort of cast...
There’s Kaylie, 29, who wants to fulfill her elementary-school passion for arts and crafts. Fifteen years ago, she was painting murals over the windows of McDonald’s outposts all over the state. But the odd jobs weren’t enough to support her and her college fees, so she started stripping. Like Bambi, she left Shamrock for a few years, but the easy cash drew her back to John and Louie. On the side, she works in landscaping, but she still maintains her dream of living just...
...become ingrained in the consciousness of every member of the JV baseball team. The famous words of Coach Sullivan, the veteran leader of the second citizens of O’Donnell field, uttered in his classic Boston accent, has become the catchphrase for the annual attempt of 30-some odd ordinary Harvard students to join in the rich tradition of their school’s intercollegiate athletic program...
While the profession of mathematician-turned-consultant might seem an odd transition, it has been a profession in the making in the recent past...
Good news for Patrick Stewart: television commercials with celebrity voice-overs are most effective when people recognize the voice--but can't quite put a name to it. Odd but true, according to a study that will appear in the Journal of Consumer Research later this year. Researchers studied reactions to TV commercials with actors David Duchovny, Donald Sutherland, David Hyde Pierce and Willem Dafoe voicing pitches for Sprint, Volvo, Lipton and Qwest, respectively. The commercial watchers' prior attitudes toward the celebrity influenced how much they liked or disliked the brand, but surprisingly, the celebrity endorsements evoked stronger feelings...