Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...network suspected of unreliability last year. "They found he had been trying to liquidate his assets and quietly sell his house," says Mustafa. "So, first they killed his brother, and then they sent brigands to rape his wife. He fled to the U.S., where he is hiding." U.S. investigators confirm the account but have little hope he will volunteer any secrets if he is located...
Soon afterwards, it quickly scheduled an emergency meeting of the Board of Overseers for Sunday, March 24 to confirm its recommendation...
...soccer ball. The improbably spherical molecules were dubbed buckminsterfulleren es, or simply buckyballs, because they resemble the geodesic domes designed by inventor Buckminster Fuller. Researchers knew that some sort of 60-atom carbon molecule existed, but they had trouble producing enough of the stuff to study its properties or confirm its structure...
...carbon atoms, and 2) they had no "edges," as chemists call the unpaired electrons that cause atoms to form chemical bonds with one another. Smalley and Kroto theorized that the molecule with no edges must have the shape of a soccer ball, but they were unable to confirm the idea...
...like a knuckle." Concluded Dr. William Cooner, a PSA expert at the University of South Alabama: "The rectal examination has served us very poorly." Several alternatives have been tried over the years, the most recent being an ultrasound probe. Although this proved somewhat effective and is now used to confirm diagnoses, at $200 to $300 an exam it is too costly to use for routine screening...