Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of Army recruits relaxed last month in a grove of tall oaks at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., finishing their catered lunch of roast turkey, scalloped potatoes, green beans and apple pie, Captain Lee McQueen's cell phone rang. The call was from his commander, warning that a practice assault planned for the base's bayonet-combat course might have to be called off: the mercury was creeping into the 90s. McQueen's team of drill sergeants--those fabled hard-noses delegated to whip raw recruits into shape--went into action. They dutifully set up a "wet-bulb globe-temperature...
...Madson near the Chicago home of real estate developer Lee Miglin and could well have seen Miglin working in an open garage, his green Lexus clearly visible. Cunanan killed Miglin, stole the Lexus and abandoned it when he heard radio reports that the Philadelphia police were tracking Miglin's cell phone. Frantically, he ripped the ceiling lining of the car in an attempt to stifle the antenna. Then he killed William Reese, a cemetery caretaker in New Jersey, to take his Chevy pickup. Gianni Versace may have met Cunanan before the killing, but the murderer may also have been targeting...
...with native wit and a "Don't tread on me" philosophy. There is good--sometimes witty--suspense in Marshall's single-handed efforts to coordinate a rescue effort by his Washington staff with his own attempts to set his people free using whatever modest tools--a table knife, a cell phone, a fax machine--come to hand...
...landmark report in last week's issue of the journal Cell suggests that whatever else Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did, they probably did not make love. In a tour de force experiment that involved extracting a microscopic strand of ancient DNA from the arm bone of a Neanderthal skeleton, a team led by Dr. Svante Paabo of the University of Munich showed that the two species have almost nothing in common, genetically speaking...
...living creatures share a certain genetic heritage. But comparing a 378-unit sequence of DNA taken from mitochondria within a Neanderthal cell to modern DNA, Paabo's team found striking differences. Contemporary humans differ from one another by an average of eight variations in that sequence. The Neanderthal specimen differed in 27 places. By comparison, there are only 55 differences between modern humans and chimpanzees...