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...comparing the genetic profile of parent and child through the so-called polymerase chain reaction (PCR). It takes would-or-would-not-be fathers only a phone call, an e-mail or a quick visit to the local pharmacy to get the kit containing test tubes and sterile cotton-wool sticks for swabbing the inside of a child's cheek. The subsequent analysis, done by the various DNA labs, takes three to 10 days...
...buck’s storyline emphasizes the similarity between the lives of blacks in slavery in the 19th century and as sharecroppers in the 20th century. The narrative is framed by the ghost of the black sharecropper Lincoln Washington (Fred Smith), recounting his own life and death on the cotton plantation of William Brett (Stephen Smith). Brett, frustrated by his lack of success in the bedroom, strongarms Lincoln into the first act of what is to become a litany of sex scenes: “warming up” his wife (Abby Fee) while Brett looks on and then finishes...
...play’s set points towards this presentation of characters as more archetypical, as the set itself is clearly allegorical. On the left side of the stage is the field, with a black tree standing against a black background interrupted only by wisps of white cotton, while on the right is the bedroom, drowned in a pure, virginal white countered by the black bed frame...
Five days a week, Bailey H. Spaulding ’04 treks over to Divinity Avenue, goes to the 10th floor of William James Hall, walks through a door that reads “Authorized Personnel Only” and says hello to the 12 vervet monkeys and 24 cotton-top tamarins that call Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser’s primate lab their home...
...American investigators zeroed in on at least two houses in Faisalabad where calls were being made to suspicious phone numbers in Afghanistan. The investigators staked out the house in Faisal Town and found that it had been rented through a local go-between by Middle Easterners posing as cotton merchants. Ideally, the agents would have "sat on" Zubaydah, monitoring his contacts and e-mails for as long as possible to unlock his secret plots and pick up clues about bin Laden...