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Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime ScenesI was used to seeing bones live and whole, within a huge organic structure of which they were only a small though vital part-not as isolated elements that might be found scattered in a field or piled in the corner of a basement. But once we moved from whole-bone identification to the analysis of fragments, my competitive spirit came through. My friend and fellow student, Tyler O'Brien, would sneak into the osteology lab with me each night, and we spent hours quizzing each other on every fragment in the collection. First we learned by sight-БЂњHalf of a right patella.БЂ«БЂњPortion of a lumbar vertebra.БЂ«Then we shut our eyes and set ourselves to learning by touch alone the unique characteristics of each bone. That process had taken months-but it had served us well. Both of us, as well as most of the class, could now take the merest glance at a whole bone and tell you what it was and which side of the body it came from. We could pick up the smallest fragment and find the key to its identity. Solving these intricate three-dimensional puzzles became a new and thrilling game ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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