Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phenomenon of genetic disease is not new. Researchers have identified some 2,000 hereditary ailments that can be passed from parent to child along with the genes for brown hair or blue eyes. They have even learned how to manage a few, like hemophilia and diabetes, and to detect Tay-Sachs disease...
...define negative impression as surprise, and I don't detect it anymore when I go out as a legitimate representative of Crimson...
...over-the-horizon" radar enabling operators to detect targets that are normally beyond radar range...
...area, operated jointly by the USGS and Caltech; smaller networks in the New York region under the Lamont-Doherty scientists; and those in the Charleston, S.C., area, operated by the University of South Carolina. When completed and computerized, these networks will provide two warnings of impending quakes. If scientists detect changes in P-wave velocities, magnetic field and other dilatancy effects that persist over a wide area, a large quake can be expected-but not for many months. If the dilatancy effects occur in a small area, the quake will be minor but will occur soon. The return to normal...
...passes, and Israel's General Staff has hitherto considered them indispensable to the country's security. Since the October war in 1973, Jerusalem has spent $60 million fortifying nature's own impressive defenses, honeycombing the black granite with miniforts and electronic gear that can detect MIG planes preparing to take off from Egyptian fields on the other side of the Suez Canal...