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...false positives are bad because they breed fear instead of allaying it. The researchers are working on refinements by which they hope to weed them...
William B. Breed Jr. (Assoc. Mgr.) of Weston, Mass...
...enterprising drawing master of Northampton, England hit upon the idea while watching a local horse fair. William Shipley could see that the horse fair had a workable system: its prizes encouraged men to breed better horses, which in turn led to better fairs and back again to better breeding. With that picture in mind. Master Shipley set off for London one day in 1754. His mission: to persuade a group of influential men to apply the horse-fair technique to the encouragement of art and industry...
...federal beat for the city staff of the PD, big (250 Ibs., 6 ft. 4 in.), jovial Ray Webster ("You'll never get a story until you show some sources you can drink more than they can") has been undisputed dean of the "beat men," a vanishing breed of U.S. newsmen who are more at home in the federal and county buildings and city halls than the public officials they cover...
Winning Devil. Coorinna, unlike Bandoola, poses as a novel, but is really a straight bit of nature reporting by Erie Wilson, a "volunteer ranger under the New South Wales Fauna Protection Panel." His hero, Coorinna, is a rare breed of marsupial wolf, now nearly extinct. The life and times of Coorinna are largely a matter of fighting to eat and eating to fight. A sly and winning devil, Coorinna meets a violent end, but not before Author Wilson can treat him and the reader to such exotic Australian fauna and flora as striped bandicoots, ti trees and brush-tongued lorikeets...