Raeburn

RAEBURN: Well, I'm sorry to say we're out of time. I've had a great time talking about this.

RAEBURN: I was going to ask you why you were called the bone lady, but I'm starting to get it.

I slept feeling as though Dr. Raeburn had attached electrodes to my head, willing into my mind a dream about my mother.

I stopped the story there. Dr. Raeburn kept looking at me. "Then what happened? "

RAEBURN: . . . in despair of such a thing ever happening.

Dr. Raeburn lit his next cigarette like a detective. Cool, suspicious. "How did it feel? "

I told Dr. Raeburn about Heidi's mother having cancer and how I'd said it wasn't a big deal, though I'd wanted to say exactly the opposite.

RAEBURN: Now, did was that decision made in the '70s because people hadn't realized what they were getting into?

RAEBURN: That's what we always try to get you to do.

Paul Raeburn writes about science, policy and the environment from New York City.

RAEBURN: Now, Mary Manhein, how does anthropology - how does the science of anthropology contribute to this kind of work?

RAEBURN: So what - something is changing shape or is bone growing or. . .

RAEBURN: Well, the I understand that your field is ethics, youre in the ethics biz, as we say. . .

"What happened next? " Dr. Raeburn asked again. "Did you let the boy walk you home? "

RAEBURN: Now you've had a pretty good track record with this - all kinds of different agencies you've work with.

RAEBURN: Yeah, give us the - what's the - the brand name, I think, is easier to remember.

RAEBURN: So this could be a murder victim, a missing person, all kinds of things.

Raeburn smiled gently, though he seemed unconvinced.

RAEBURN: I know when the space shuttle blew up.

RAEBURN: Well, I think the - I see your point.

RAEBURN: Now, is this normally done in the context of some sort of police investigation?

RAEBURN: Now, in your in the kind of framework that youre developing and exploring here, do you have an opinion on that?

RAEBURN: How do you tell those things from bones?