Word: skulled
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...make Spider-Man succeed when other comics-based films have the unfortunate habit of landing belly-side down at the box office. For every Blade or X-Men, which made an impressive $157 million, there are at least two films that end up like The Punisher, whose nameless and skull-less vigilante left audiences yawning...
...joined in to keep the siege going. Recently, both factories were shut down. Shi Jian, the ceramics factory workers' leader, went into hiding after receiving threats to his life. In February 1999, he returned home to visit his nine-year-old son. Unknown assailants savagely beat him, fracturing his skull with steel bars and plunging knives into both legs. Today a jagged red scar encircles his head like a crown. That attack broke the labor movement in Henan. Today, just one factory in the province remains occupied by workers...
Suddenly, Eastlund and her husband Dale faced a terrible choice. They could do nothing and hope that the aneurysm would never start to leak. Or she could get the standard treatment, first performed in 1937, in which a neurosurgeon drills a hole in the skull and puts a clip (usually titanium) around the blister-like pouch. Or she could try something new: a procedure called coiling, approved...
Marie (not this woman's real name; she wishes to remain anonymous) can see again thanks to an electrode implanted around her right optic nerve. The electrode is connected to a stimulator installed in a small depression carved from the inside of her skull. A video camera, worn on a cap, transmits images in the form of radio signals to the stimulator, which converts these signals into electrical impulses and sends them along Marie's optic nerve. The optic nerve ferries the signals to Marie's visual cortex, where they are reassembled into an image: in this case, a collection...
These devices are permanently implanted inside Marie's skull, but to use them she must travel to a small room at the University of Louvain and don what looks like a badly damaged 1960s bathing cap. The cap is made of plastic and has a standard video camera affixed to its front. To use the MIVIP, Marie sits in front of a large white screen on which an alphabet of about 50 different line configurations is projected...