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Among this group of 143 individuals, five showed signs of interior bone damage caused by cancer. This means 3.5 percent of the men and women in the sample population were suffering from serious forms of cancer at the times of their deaths, with the cancer presumably contributing heavily to those casualties. All of the individuals who’d had cancer had been middle aged or older when they met their demise.
Past studies have only looked for exterior lesions on recovered bones. This explains why their estimates of medieval cancer rates were so low in comparison to these new findings. “Only some cancer spreads to bone, and of these only a few are visible on its surface, so we searched within the bone for signs of malignancy,” explained the study’s lead researcher, Dr. Piers Mitchell , who is the Director of the Ancient Parasites Laboratory in the University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology.
Maggie Tsang of the Boston-based consulting firm Utile shares zoning recommendations Wednesday with the Industrial Zones Oversight Committee.
NORWALK, Conn. Industrial zoning was developed to separate the factories of the 19th and 20th centuries from residential neighborhoods, a good strategy given the toxic waste, air and water pollution, and other hazards that were byproducts of many Industrial Revolution-era manufacturing processes.
No more. Digital technologies are enabling manufacturers of all stripes to reinvent virtually every aspect of their businesses, improving quality, efficiency, safety, and innovation in the process. Industry is undergoing a radical change, most – if not all – for the better.
How Hollywood Pulls Off The Best Food Scenes In Movies And TV
Food stylists wizardry brings memorable culinary moments to life, from Brad Pitt s lollipops to Meryl Streep s ducks.
By Matthew Jacobs
Illustration by Isabella Carapella/HuffPost; Photos: Alamy and Getty Images
Seen here: Oprah Winfrey in Lee Daniels The Butler, Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke and Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote.
Do you ever notice the way actors eat on-screen? I do. Take the volatile dinner scene in “American Beauty.” It lasts three minutes, but we only see one bite of food enter someone’s mouth; the rest is just a lot of argumentative fork-waving. After the central family in Spike Lee’s “Crooklyn” blesses their supper, they spend a lot more time discussing the meal than actively consuming it. The Thanksgiving comedy “Home for the Holidays” used 64 turkeys, according to director Jodie Foster, but not a single one got eaten. And though Paul Newman downing 50 hard-boiled eg