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...Using hair and water samples from around the U.S., the scientists produced a color-coded map showing the isotope levels in the water in different parts of the country. Specific cities cannot be pinpointed, but certain states and regions can be. "This analysis can eliminate about 90% of the U.S. as a possibility," says Cerling. "The ability to exclude is just as powerful as the ability to include in forensic science." "It helps me concentrate my efforts in a smaller area," explains Park. "It's like if you lose your car keys, instead of having to look through the entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Life CSI Is Hair | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...their birth whenever they so choose. U.S. leaders should open a dialogue with Raúl Castro to accelerate a change of course for Cuba. If the U.S. can trade with China, Saudi Arabia and other nations that do not exactly embrace democratic principles, there is no reason it cannot do so with Cuba. J. Patrick Grimes, Cambridge, Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...cannot see fast enough to pick out the details of a pass thrown in a football game. The mind cannot recover a childhood birthday beyond an impressionistic blur. In our technological age, what would we do without instant replay? In his debut novel “Beautiful Children,” Charles Bock confronts the problem of video’s power, using this subtext to focus on an underexposed subject: the roughly 1.5 million adolescents who flee their homes every year in North America. But despite its shimmering surface, Bock’s novel ultimately crumbles under the burden...

Author: By David S. Wallace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Beautiful Children’ Stuck in Loop | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...Sustainability and climate change are two of the most challenging issues of our time,” Faust said in her opening remarks. “We cannot underestimate the significance of the partnership between cities and universities...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faust, Menino Call for Climate Action | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...Ohio. She was sarcastic, mocking Obama's high-flown rhetoric, in Rhode Island. And she was a tough-minded, gritty, independent woman throughout, a woman on her own, as so many working women find themselves these days, cleaning up the messes that their feckless men have made. I cannot emphasize enough how important it was that Bill Clinton was out of the frame. She appeared alone onstage in victory in Ohio - and alone is the only way she can win the nomination, on the slim chance that it is still possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Race Goes On | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

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