The latest evidence comes from a study being published Friday that examined the 5, 000-year-old bones of a farm woman buried in southern Sweden.
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Their investigation focused in particular on a tangle of 2, 000 year-old bones, possibly those of a family, found in Slip Gill Windy Pit in the 1950s.
There was enough life, and more importantly, pride left in the old bones to muster a 19th five-wicket-haul against Pakistan in his last Test match, in Antigua, when a defeat beckoned.
The new study, of 5, 000-year-old bones from the Basque region of Spain, catches this evolutionary event in the act, finding that just 27% of individuals were then lactose tolerant, much lower than today.
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The second factor is what Eppler called "synchronicity, " and it helps explain the rejuvenating effect the Bronx seems to have on these old bags of bones.
It is not just accountants who hope it will resist the temptation to put too much flesh on the old law's bones.
The young producer's reputation for bare-bones, "old-school" production and rap styles earned him quick respect in the hip-hop community during the last six years.
British entrepreneurs scoured the old battlefields of Europe searching for phosphorus-rich bones.
One might expect that at the ripe old age of 100 the company would be creaking along with brittle bones, weak knees, a bad heart, and finding it hard to get up in the morning.
The bones, thought to be at least 2, 000 years old, included sections of beaks and the remains of dodo chicks.
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Set in a creaking old town house, the 15 rooms possess the original 19th-Century bones to offset their Rose Bowl-sourced and individually furnished interiors, a cosy of velvet settees, fringed lamps and sepia-toned writing paper.
In the old days taxpayers would often attach to their return a simple, bare-bones letter from an accountant stating the gift's value.
Her preliminary measurements of the bones suggest that the child was aged between eight and 10 years old, but its gender is still uncertain.
The second rescue was on Sunday afternoon when a 28-year-old man from Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, slipped, and broke two bones in his lower leg while descending the same mountain.
It's a story to warm the bones of Joseph Schumpeter (of "creative destruction" fame) and bring the old Austrian economist waltzing out of his grave.
He was born with missing bones in his lower legs, and doctors amputated his legs below the knees when he was 11 months old.
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