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...since Israeli collectors and looters alike know that the rabbinical authorities are sensitive about human remains. What is left is these off-white bits. The largest is half an inch wide and three inches long, its inner surface an intricate honeycomb. A reporter holds it gently--who knows whose DNA it might contain...
...have used the box as a handy receptacle while emptying others. Radiocarbon dating might be able to determine whether the chips date to the same approximate period as the box. As for genetic tests, James Chatters, a Seattle-based archaeologist with forensic expertise, says it is "entirely possible" that DNA could be extracted from such fragments. Most likely to be recovered would be the mitochondrial variety, which can provide a catalog of maternal traits. Of course, if the ossuary was biblical, the mother (by the Gospels' most literal interpretation) would be Mary...
...trying to bolster its evidence against the suspects in the other Washington-area shootings. Law-enforcement sources tell Time that the fbi is testing saliva used to seal a letter left at the murder scene outside a Ponderosa steak house in Virginia for a match with either man's dna. Meanwhile, more evidence is emerging of the lengths to which desperate authorities went in an effort to catch the snipers. At the height of the Beltway crisis, fbi sources tell Time, the bureau's elite hostage-rescue team secretly paired with local swat teams and scattered around the region...
...making all those television appearances and writing all those op-eds makes being a public intellectual a time-consuming affair. When FM contacted James D. Watson, who discovered the structure of DNA, about an interview for this story, his assistant replied that he was all booked up until 2004. “With the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA fast approaching, Dr. Watson is swamped in production of a five-part TV series, three new books, and numerous appearances,” wrote Watson’s assistant, Jeff Picarello...
...Brien is opposed to the death penalty and, instead, supports sentencing the worst criminals to life in prison without parole. Romney is in favor of the death penalty, despite the fact that DNA evidence has freed many wrongfully convicted prisoners in the past few years...