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...scrutiny (including surveillance, searches of their homes and offices and even, in some cases, polygraph tests). But the pool of suspects also contains hundreds more, including researchers of biopesticides, biopharmaceuticals and veterinary products. "Remember, it doesn't have to be a top scientist. It could just be a good bench technician," says a federal investigator. Beyond the anthrax labs, the feds have also looked into more than 1,000 companies that sell equipment that could be used to process the deadly spores or that could have profited in some way from the attacks. The FBI counsels patience, but that...
...should, what with all the Creatine you've been getting. But Ted, you've been "on the bench" for five years. You need to know something: baseball's changed. We've added a clock, made the ball more oblong, stuck nets around the field so the ball always stays in play...
...Judge William Schuwerk Jr. heard the case. An ill-prepared public defender represented Yoder, and he allowed Vallabhaneni to assert without proof that Yoder had committed "several" assaults in prison. Schuwerk, who failed to mention that he himself had prosecuted Yoder's first commitment in 1982, ruled from the bench that Yoder should go to the asylum again...
...forget the human capital. The G.I. Bill created much more human capital, which came home to roost in the '60s when the economy took off. The level of inequality in skills in the U.S. shrank. You had a more skilled work force, so when you dip down into the bench, you continue to have productive workers...
...Impossible to defend," says Ray Knight, the bench coach of the Cincinnati Reds, "but he's a joy to watch...