Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reminded me of high class versions of those weight reducing ads in which Betti-Jo Applepie tells about her life-long battle with fifty extra pounds and how she managed to win the fight with the help of the product. There were only two major differences that I could detect between the ads and the Crimson articles: 1) The struggle was not against chocolate cakes and napoleons but against the pitfalls of life at a big university and 2) Betti-Jo won her crusade but no one in The Crimson emerged victorious...
Compile a list of faculty members' outside activities and make it available to the public, allowing it a chance to detect conflicts of interest...
Exotic Chemistry. But the devices that got the most attention were those in Viking 2's biology laboratory, the small (1 cu. ft.) package designed to detect life on Mars. This week the lander is to stretch out its robot arm, scoop up a sample of Martian soil and dump it into the minilab, which will repeat the three life-seeking experiments already performed by Viking 1. If the scoop works and all goes according to schedule, the results of these experiments could be in early next week...
...hardest kind of cheating to detect involves collusion between employers and employees. Caroline K., a 30-year-old Manhattan secretary who was having personal problems, quit her job last year. Her employer, in sympathy with her plight, listed her as fired, thus enabling Caroline to collect $90 a week in unemployment benefits for 65 weeks (in New York, most employees who quit voluntarily are ineligible for jobless benefits). Unemployment officials insisted that she visit prospective employers regularly. But her former boss had deliberately made Caroline difficult to place by saying that her relatively high salary was for work performed...
Whatever killed the Legionnaires, the disease detectives concede, may, in the end, prove impossible to detect. "There's an outside chance we may never find out the cause," said CDC Director David Sencer. "I think we will. But there are times when disease baffles us all. It may be a sporadic, a onetime appearance...