A detail of the print on the Home Duvet. Photo: DutchByDesign.com
This is pretty scary how this man who is on America's Most Wanted list (second on the list) can change his appearace surgically including altering his fingerprints to avoid detection.
EL PASO, Texas (CNN) -- Eduardo Ravelo is described as a "ruthless killer" who has gone to great lengths to avoid law enforcement while contributing to the bloodshed that terrorizes the border between Texas and Mexico.
Authorities say the suspected hit man with close ties to the Juarez drug cartel has shaved his head, undergone plastic surgery and even manipulated his fingerprints to elude capture.
He heads the Barrio Aztecas gang, but Ravelo isn't flashy, FBI agents say. He keeps a low profile, living modestly.
On Tuesday, Ravelo was named to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, taking the second of three vacant slots. 
Officially, he's wanted on federal racketeering charges, but the FBI says Ravelo's criminal activities run much deeper. He is believed to be responsible for dozens of murders and assaults, as well as drug trafficking, extortion, weapons offenses and money laundering, FBI Agent Samantha Mikeska said.
"He has no respect for human life," she said.
Mikeska is leading the hunt for Ravelo, who goes by the nickname "Tablas," which is Spanish for wooden plank. He's also called "Two-by-four" and is believed to be hiding with his wife and children, probably in a Barrio Aztecas-controlled neighborhood in Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
"Eduardo Ravelo rose to power within the Barrio Aztecas criminal enterprise because of his connections with the Juarez cartel and also [because] he's a ruthless killer and will basically carry out what theJuarez cartel wants him to do," Mikeska said.
Barrio Aztecas started as a Texas prison gang in the 1980s. Federal authorities say the profits from drug sales are often transferred to the commissary accounts of gang members in prison.
Ravelo came to his position atop the gang violently, the FBI agent said, killing the person whose place he took. His power comes from his close ties to the Juarez cartel. He has spent the past 15 years cultivating relationships with some of the highest-ranking cartel members.
Drug cartel leaders often align themselves with street gangs, employing gang members to carry out some of the cartel's most vicious work.
U.S. authorities say the commanders of the Juarez cartel often call on Ravelo to execute their enemies. In exchange, Ravelo and his Barrio Aztecas comrades get drugs to sell on the streets of Mexico and the United States.
FBI investigators say they believe that in March 2008, Ravelo carried out a hit on a captain in his own gang. Mikeska believes Ravelo stabbed him several times and shot him in the neck. Shortly after the murder, he became a Barrio Aztecas "capo," or captain.
In recent years, federal agents have arrested dozens of Barrio Aztecas' 3,500 members, with six of its leaders sentenced to life in prison.
But Ravelo has eluded authorities. He holds both U.S. and Mexican citizenship, federal authorities say, helping him escape across the border into Mexico with his wife and children.
While he may be staying out of sight, he's keeping up his violent work, Mikeska says, and he has the resources to do so.
"He has an entourage, he has bodyguards, he has armored vehicles to protect him from rival gangs and rival cartels," Mikeska says.
I thought this was pretty cool. This article says that neanderthal's skulls are shaped differently from modern man's skulls not by natural selection, but by Random genetic changes.
For 150 years, scientists have tried to decipher why Neanderthal skulls are different from those of modern humans," Weaver said. "Most accounts have emphasized natural selection and the possible adaptive value of either Neanderthal or modern human traits. We show that instead, random changes over the past 500,000 years or so – since Neanderthals and modern humans became isolated from each other – are the best explanation for these differences."
Weaver and his colleagues compared cranial measurements of 2,524 modern human skulls and 20 Neanderthal specimens, then contrasted those results with genetic information from a separate sample of 1,056 modern humans.
The scientists concluded that Neanderthals did not develop their protruding mid-faces as an adaptation to icy Pleistocene weather or the demands of using teeth as tools, and the retracted faces of modern humans are not an adaptation for language, as some anthropologists have proposed.
Instead, random "genetic drift" is the likeliest reason for these skull differences.
Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden told reporters on Sunday that Richard Heene and his Japanese-born wife Mayumi had fabricated Thursday's drama in which their six-year-old son Falcon was reported to have flown away on a home-made helium balloon.
The couple previously appeared in the reality show Wife Swap.
Falcon Heene was later discovered alive after hiding in an upstairs attic at the family home for several hours, a bizarre ending to a televised drama that drew immediate suspicions of a hoax.
Footage emerged over the weekend showing the moment the balloon lifted in the sky, with Richard and Mayumi Heene standing only metres away.
Alderden revealed at a press conference that the Heene parents had first met during a Hollywood acting class - and successfully conned officers last Thursday into thinking that they were distraught as the tension mounted. Mayumi Heene was reportedly born Mayumi Iizuka around 1964 in Japan.
"Needless to say they put on a very good show for us and we bought it," Alderden told reporters. "These people are actors ... we were manipulated by the family and the media were manipulated by the family.
"The plan was to create a situation where it appeared Falcon was in the craft and that his life was in jeopardy in order to gain a lot of publicity with the ultimate goal of gaining some notoriety and perhaps furthering their careers by gaining a contract for a reality TV show," Alderden explained.
Alderden also revealed for the first time that the Heenes' three sons - aged 10, eight and six - were also in on the scam.
Alderden confirmed that Heene and his wife are expected to face felony and misdemeanor charges of conspiracy, contributing to delinquency of a minor, attempting to influence a public servant, and filing a false report. The couple's children are unlikely to face charges because of their young age.
