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...fervid objection? For starters, moving Lucy will undoubtedly injure her. No matter how carefully she is handled, scientists say, the bones will invariably be damaged, if only microscopically. "This iconic fossil is a unique biological specimen that should never be placed at risk: travel, packing, unpacking and handling exposes the skeleton to dangers that are unacceptable," says Leakey. "The decision to send Lucy on tour to the U.S. and perhaps elsewhere is to be deplored by any right-minded person." Researchers also argue that risking an original, one-of-a-kind artifact is senseless, especially when a replica could...
...drawings, which historians say may be the most important Galileo find in more than a century, are in a specimen of Galileo's volume that had long been secreted away in the collection of an anonymous South American. At the request of New York-based rare-books dealer Richard Lan, who now owns it, Bredekamp and his associates examined the drawings over the course of two years, dating paper and ink and comparing brushstrokes with other known Galileo sketches. Bredekamp believes that Galileo, who was overseeing the printing of Sidereus Nuncius, drew the moons on the pages of a proof...
...short, this grisly comedy of horrors is about more than the tragic death of one irrelevant, decaying Playboy model; it’s an unflattering sketch of the society that created such a ghastly specimen in the first place. Some might see her as an example of the glamour model life gone wrong—in fact, the opposite is the case. Smith was the archetype of the pornstar model existence: nasty, brutish, and short...
...place.'' Next day, a young man came to provide medical attention. After I told him I had a fever and had been coughing for nearly two months, he declared, ''You probably have hepatitis. There is a lot of it going around in this detention house. I'll examine a specimen of your blood.'' I was astonished. Any ignoramus would know that I had bronchitis, possibly verging on pneumonia, not hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver with symptoms entirely different from mine. What sort of ''doctor'' was this? When I looked at him through the small window, I saw a country...
...being really fit," he says. "I got a bit of ribbing from a few of the players for over-training. Frank Sedgman was my idol, and Sedg did a lot of gym work. He was pretty scrawny as a lad and built himself up into a strong physical specimen. So I sort of did what he did." Though his name doesn't resonate today like those of some of his contemporaries, Cooper for a time was king of the court. Triumph in the '57 Open imbued him with a confidence that swept him to a stellar 1958, when...