Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tabloids, as is their wont, not only detail the crime but also posit the charges that will be brought in the Dec. 26 murder of the six-year-old Boulder, Colo., beauty queen. All a frustrated public has to go on are those tales and the reiterations of District Attorney Alex Hunter, who told TIME last week, "I smell an arrest. The investigation is on track." Three weeks ago, investigators visited Patsy's sister Pam Paugh in Atlanta. She told TIME, "They felt they had done enough outside investigation to sit down and corroborate what they'd found out with...
...Less Attention to Detail...
This gave scientists a target on which to focus their research. They began scanning that part of the brain with MRI technology, which uses subtle magnetic changes to capture the internal structure of organs in exquisite detail. To their surprise, they discovered that there was on average 39% to 48% less brain tissue in the affected region of depressed patients. Drevets speculates that the deficit may result from the catastrophic loss of a particular subset of brain cells, which his co-workers are trying to identify...
Pynchon vividly recounts the dangers and struggles Mason and Dixon endure in carrying out their assignment. And it slowly becomes clear that this story is not about a triumph of 18th century scientific methods, which Pynchon explains in elaborate detail, but rather about a tragic desecration, a deadly abstraction imposed upon land once natural and truly free. Mason and Dixon cannot foresee the bloodshed that will rage across their line a century later, during the U.S. Civil War, but both men, in Pynchon's telling, come to believe that they did something wrong to the wilderness. Years later Mason tells...
Diagramming the method for separating a mouse into its components, Huber suggested the use of tomography, electron microscopy, biochemical analysis, crystal decoration, X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging for high-resolution, atomic detail...