Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some socioeconomic groups are impervious to recession. Dogs, for example. Cats too -- or at least rich ones. In Beverly Hills, Critter Caterers offers pampered pets colognes, tuxedoes and furs, bone-shaped canine birthday cakes that begin at $50, high-tech flea collars using ultrasonic waves, even a $1,600 Kitty Condo, a three-story luxury cat house...
...styles. But as Lewis Maltby of the A.C.L.U. notes, the question then becomes, Where do you draw the line? It is generally legal for a company to declare its workplace a smoke-free environment and punish violaters. How, though, can a corporation or government agency demand that employees like Bone refrain from lighting up away from work, especially since smoking itself is not a crime? High cholesterol levels can lead to heart disease and other health problems. But what right does an employer have to demand that a worker refrain from eating fried chicken or ice cream...
...nation's lawmakers are beginning to listen: 19 states, including New Jersey, Colorado and Oregon, have passed some form of legislation that bars employers from discriminating against workers because of their life-style. (Despite Indiana's new smoker-protection law, Bone has not got her former job back, and has filed a claim against the company. Overweight Mercado sued, won and got a judgment of more than $500,000, plus a return to his old post...
...grounds of the former Dahmer house in Bath, Ohio, for the remains of Steven Hicks, who may have been the murderer's first victim. In 1978 Hicks, 18, was hitchhiking when Dahmer, also 18 at the time, took him home, killed him with a barbell and smashed his bones with a hammer. So far, about 100 bone and three tooth fragments have been recovered from the grounds. Investigators plan to test them against a lock of hair and dental records that Hicks' parents provided in the hope of proving a match. In a statement issued last week, the Hicks family...
Since the first working machine was developed six years ago by a team of Cetus Corp. researchers, including biochemist Kary Mullis, PCR has enabled researchers to study even the faintest, most fragmentary traces of DNA found in specks of dried blood, strands of hair, chips of bone. In the journal Nature last week, for example, a team of British researchers recounted how they successfully identified a teenage murder victim from skeletal remains eight years old. First they extracted DNA from bone cells in the dead girl's femur. Then they obtained DNA from blood samples donated by the couple believed...