Word: dna
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...response of Americans, especially New Yorkers, to the events of 9/11 was equally so. While Americans may react less stoically and with more surface passion, New Yorkers rescued others from burning buildings, went back to work on 9/12 and spent two years digging through rubble to find any dna that could be used to bring closure to grieving families. No act of terrorism could diminish our American spirit, nor should the world fail to recognize that we too have grace and dignity under pressure. Andrea Pines New York City A Good Shepherd's Tale "How the shepherd saved the seal...
...more or less as an equal partner in crime largely because he had been aware that his wife had stolen computers and other items from her government office. Upcoming Cases: One features a Tennessee man on death row trying to win a new trial because of fresh, potentially exculpatory DNA evidence. Another centers on whether police can search a home when a squabbling husband and wife give different answers to officers' requests...
...seasons' work, covering only a small part of the site, have left Pacific prehistory hunters unable to contain their glee. "It's the site we've all been looking for, the site we were hoping might exist," says Lisa Matisoo-Smith, a specialist in the study of ancient dna at the University of Auckland...
...focused on whether the Lapita people originated among Neolithic farmers of Taiwan before moving through Melanesia and into Polynesia, or whether the Lapita culture was indigenous to the Bismarck Archipelago. In Auckland, Matisoo-Smith's lab has begun the intricate task of following that trail by trying to extract dna from the bones. Only one other study of ancient dna, collected from a range of younger sites, has ever been done in the region, and it was undertaken, Matisoo-Smith says, when less rigorous protocols produced less reliable results. While her results are still incomplete, Matisoo-Smith says the Teouma...
DISCOVERED. An ICE AX believed to be the weapon used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky; by the daughter of a former Mexican secret service agent; in Mexico City. DNA tests of bloodstains on the ax have been delayed by a dispute between Ana Alicia Salas, who says her late father removed the ax from an evidence room for safekeeping, and Esteban Volkov, Trotsky's grandson, who wants it donated to his museum at Trotsky's former home. Trotsky, a leader of the 1917 Russian revolution, had fled the Soviet Union in 1937 after differences with Josef Stalin...