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Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
Three years ago, the U.S. thinned out its presence in Baghdad and Iraqi forces could not stem the tide of sectarian fighting. By the end of June, Iraq's forces will again be in control of their cities — and many Iraqis wonder if they are up to the task.
Astounded by the U.S. government's failure to resolve the financial crisis threatening the foundations of the global free market, fingers of blame are pointing at America from around the planet.
An 8-year-old champion dirt-bike racer severed four fingers during a tug-of-war game at a charity benefit and is recovering from surgery to reconstruct her lost digits.
The image turns Patrick Reuben's stomach: someone cutting off his twin brother's finger and putting it in a package with other severed digits.
It was both the king of the swingers and a tree-walker. A new study of an extinct ape suggests it had the hands to both swing from branches and walk along them on all fours. But no one knows whether it was an evolutionary dead end or a key step in the evolution of the tree-dwelling lifestyle led by modern orang-utans.
A fisherman had two of his fingertips reattached after cutting them off to free himself from a sinking boat, his employer said Tuesday.
Researchers are trying to find ways to regrow fingers — and someday, even limbs — with tricks that sound like magic spells from a Harry Potter novel.
It seems that my doctor has decided (and I agree) that the numbness in my left pinkie finger and partially affecting my left ring finger (for the past 2 months) is something called an Ulnar Nerve Lesion caused by a Ulnar Nerve Entrapment. Now, I've never heard of this and I'm h …
Parents sue pushchair maker which ignored warnings after 15 children's fingers were severedA group of parents is suing pushchair maker Maclaren claiming it knew its products had injured children and ignored warnings others could get hurt. More than 15 UK families are seeking compensation, claiming their children had fingertips severed by buggy hinges.
Galileo's missing fingers found in jarTwo fingers cut from the hand of Italian astronomer Galileo nearly 300 years ago have been rediscovered more than a century after they were last seen, an Italian museum director said Monday.
Middle fingers cost Titans' owner $250K A few seconds of exuberant finger-flipping cost Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams a quarter of a million dollars Monday"
About a week ago the left most outer two fingers on my left hand went numb and so did the side of the same hand beneath them. Today my upper left arm is starting to ache and my grip is getting weaker every day.
School fined as girl loses fingers in art lessonA school in eastern England was ordered to pay 19,000 pounds ($30,140) Monday after a 16-year-old girl lost nearly all her fingers when she put her hands in a bucket of plaster of Paris during an art lesson.
Fine as art pupil loses fingersA school has been fined £16,500 after a 16-year-old pupil lost eight fingers when her hands got stuck in a bucket of plaster of Paris during an art lesson. She was making a cast of her hands in January 2007 when they became trapped, magistrates in Boston were told.
Taliban chop off Afghan voters' fingers New evidence of violence against Afghan voters have emerged as election observers confirmed that Taliban fanatics in the south of Afghanistan hacked off the fingers of at least two people who dared to vote in last week's elections.
Coral Springs firefighter's fingers hacked off by machete-wielding boyfriend, police sayNORTH LAUDERDALE --- Wielding a machete and a knife, a man repeatedly stabbed his girlfriend Monday night and then hacked off four of her fingers, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.
Chopped finger at restaurant brings settlementExcerpt: An El Sobrante restaurant has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a 50-year-old woman who had the tip of her finger chopped off in a freak accident with her chair, her attorney said Thursday.
German Fried Chicken: Tender, Juicy Obama Fingers Hit the Shelves A German frozen food company hopes to raise sales with a new product: Obama fingers. The tender, fried chicken bits come with a tasty curry sauce. The company says it was unaware of the possible racist overtones of the product.
Boy born with 24 fingers and toes The six digits on each of Kamani's hands and feet are so perfectly formed and fully functioning that experts at St Luke's Hospital in San Francisco said that they do not constitute a deformity or disability.
Sony taps veins for better biometrics Sony has unveiled the next step in biometric security: a camera-based system that analyses veins in your fingers.
Baby Born In Calif. With 12 Fingers, 12 Toes (with video)DALY CITY, Calif. -- A Daly City couple is beaming after becoming the proud parents of a healthy but incredibly rare baby boy this month.
Baby Born In Bay Area With 12 Functioning Fingers, 12 ToesA Daly City couple is beaming after becoming the proud parents of a healthy but incredibly rare baby boy this month.
Parks contractor attacked by alligator at John Prince Park, fingers mangledExcerpt: An alligator bit a man's hand and dragged him into the water this afternoon in John Prince Park near Lake Worth, authorities said.
OMG! Clermont girl texts 35,000 messages in 1 monthBrad Cox of Clermont was surfing the Internet this week when he saw a story about a California girl who had sent and received 14,528 text messages on her cell phone in one month.
Ring finger length linked to City stockbrokers' success, claim scientistsA study of highly pressured London traders, whose jobs requires risk taking and quick responses, found the most successful had long ring fingers in relation to their index fingers. The trait - which is associated with higher exposure to testosterone in the womb - is thought to b …
A Microscopic Tool Inspired by the Human HandUsing the human hand as a model, scientists at Johns Hopkins University and its medical school have developed a microscopic tool that might one day be used inside the body.
Cut finger? Try dip in ground coffee / Leg cramps and a bar of soap / Cholesterol Affected by Glucosamine and ChondroitinQ: I have enjoyed reading about home remedies on your Web site and would like to share mine. Dip a bleeding (cut, nicked, sliced or whatever) finger in ground coffee and the bleeding stops. If, after the first dip, it still shows some blood, dip it in again and bandage it.
Dirty Dining: A Special Undercover InvestigationExcerpt: You use your hands all the time, but do you wash them just as often? Every day people are touching dirty surfaces, bodily fluids and then other people. You wouldn't go under the knife with surgeons who hadn't washed their hands.
Cops use greasy fingerprints to nab hungry burglar LYNCHBURG, Va. -A prosecutor says greasy fingerprints led police in Virginia to a suspect with sticky fingers.
For the Digitally Deceased, a Profitable Graveyard For some reason, I thought this was going to be about a graveyard for severed fingers...
New ring advertises single statusMONTREAL, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A French-Canadian entrepreneur near Montreal is marketing specially designed rings that advertise the wearer is single and approachable.
Suspect Steals Cash, Leaves ThumbBryan Perez, 22, and an accomplice made off with hundreds of dollars in cash in an Oct. 11 raid at an alleged brothel in Washington's Columbia Heights neighborhood. ...one of the victims took control of Perez's silver machete during a struggle and hacked off his right thumb.
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