Word: dna
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...field. With no witnesses to the crime, the prosecution's case relied on the confessions and two pieces of evidence: a knife found in one defendant's home that had blood of the same type as the driver and a cigarette butt found in the taxi with another's DNA. But the knife and the cigarette butt were never produced in court, says Xu. And as for the confessions, "We have witnesses who saw them being tortured. And because [the confessions] were made up, they didn't even agree with the facts of the case at the crime scene...
...exist in the English language. You can understand my trepidation when I read about classes such as Biophysics 360, “Enzymatic Mechanisms and Antibiotic Biosynthesis.” While that class seemed cool (sounded like you’d be spending the semester experimenting with DNA of super-humans or radioactive mutants or something) it did not seem like the type of class that would yield an “easy A.” The CUE Guide was also a little disconcerting to me. If the rumors I’d been hearing about Harvard?...
...maybe Lee Kuan Yew was right when he compared this new Singapore with Venice, London and New York. Those cities grew into giants not by copying blueprints of other capitals, but by being open to fresh ideas and unfamiliar DNA. "Yes, we should study best practices and features from other great cities," says Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Agency. "But, ultimately, we need to seek out answers that best suit Singapore. To find our own soul." With their usual determination, Singaporeans are looking...
...Scripture. Americans like religion on their own terms. This isn’t that surprising. After all, the original American colonies were founded by religious zealots who didn’t like governments telling them what to believe. For better or worse, this has never quite left our cultural DNA...
...Some 200 people across the country, many of them on death row, have been exonerated through DNA evidence, according to the Innocence Project, a New York advocacy and litigation firm headed up by Barry Scheck. More than half of the nation's states have had at least one exoneration. Of those, Illinois, with 27, ranks behind only Texas, with 28, in the total number of exonerations...