Mr. Marlantes puts you in the heads of scared young men walking blindly in column through head-high grass in terror of trip-wires and ambush by enemies fighting on their home turf, or hacking their way through impenetrable bush overwhelmed by fatigue, jungle rot, fear, sickness, tigers and leeches.

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It was noticed that his spinal column was crooked, his head seated on his shoulder blades and that one leg was shorter than the other.

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Goldenhar Syndrome is a congenital condition that produces abnormalities of the head and the bones of the spinal column.

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In a January 2007 column, I wrote about how Tony Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts who led his team to victory in the Super Bowl last year, pushes his players hard but doesn't curse at them, chew them out, or speak to them sarcastically -- unusual behavior in the National Football League's scream-and-holler culture.

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The painting, dated to around 1637, shows Princess Mary at the age of five or six, wearing a rich silver-laced gown and pearl head-dress, standing before a classical column and ornate gold damask curtain.

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Magic bullets for understanding metastasis "have been proposed again and again, and nothing has ever held up, " says Richard Klausner, former head of the National Cancer Institute and now a principal at the Column Group, a venture capital firm.

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