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...comrades open each body bag, inventory the contents, decontaminate for chemical waste, then assess the victim for gunshot wounds or a shattered skull that might indicate murder, not accidental death. Each victim is photographed, with attention given to such identifiers as long-healed scars, birthmarks and tattoos. Fingerprinting and dental imaging follow before the forensic specialists collect samples of DNA, preferably a sliver of bone. Then the dead are returned to their body bags to be stored in a refrigerated receiving vault until the Federal Emergency Management Agency can get the remains back to Louisiana for the formal process...
...older people, show up like white blobs, so that the blockage could be partial or total (see box). Then there's the issue of radiation. A typical cardiac CT scan exposes a patient to 50 to 80 times the amount of radiation in a series of full-mouth dental X rays. Researchers hope to figure out ways to decrease the dose soon...
...been subjected to long periods of damaging humidity. "Unfortunately, in the Pacific we're really pushing the boundaries of how well the dna is preserved," says Matisoo-Smith, who will soon send her results to a U.S. lab for replication. Hands dusty from gently loosening fragile bones with a dental pick, Hallie Buckley works in the Efate heat barefooted and in a T shirt. A biological anthropologist at New Zealand's University of Otago, Buckley specializes in prehistoric health, and the discovery of Teouma seems to her a small miracle: "It just keeps getting better." Hidden within these graves...
...matter of time before I plow into a busload of schoolkids while struggling to cue up SpongeBob SquarePants. My navigation system, meanwhile, not only can locate the five nearest Chinese restaurants from any point in the continental U.S. but will also remind me that I have a noon dental appointment and that I need to pick up the cat's antifungal cream before the vet closes at 6. Cool? Absolutely. But also utterly distracting...
...designating the mortuary site and forming an Identification Commission. In the London case, the commission is headed by Reid and the Westminster coroner, Paul Knapman, who led the inquest into a 1996 IRA bus bombing that killed the perpetrator; it also includes Metropolitan Police Service officers, forensic pathologists and dental experts, who act much like a tribunal in ruling on identity. Commission members study information provided by friends, relatives, doctors and dentists of the missing, and compare it to their own postmortem findings from victims' bodies, clothing and personal effects. All bodies are photographed, X-rayed and visually examined; some...