Word: guards
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Then, in May 1992, a different kind of visitor arrived: FBI agents and National Guard troops, among others, raided the Black Hills Institute, seizing Sue and other fossils, along with photos, business records and documents. In 1993 a federal grand jury indicted Larson and five colleagues on a total of 39 felony charges, including stealing fossils from government land...
Newcomers to the 75-year-old author's work will most likely be amused, but more confused, by the book, and even Vonnegut veterans may be caught off guard if they are expecting anything resembling a conventional story. The kind of wildly imaginative plotline that characterized his earlier and best-known satirical novels (such as the absurd, apocalyptic masterpiece, Cat's Cradle makes no appearance here. Fimequake is not so much wildly imaginative as wildly cantankerous, not so much a great read as a great rant...
...want to see the latest hot cars, just sit around this lot for a few hours," said a security guard who refused to give her name...
...methods and machinery, some of them known for decades but refined and repackaged to fit today's needs and concerns. While bloodless techniques vary from hospital to hospital, they invariably begin with medicinal and nutritional approaches to increase a patient's blood count before surgery. Efforts are made to guard against unnecessary blood loss from tests, and standard blood drawings are either reduced or eliminated altogether. And since an intensive-care patient during an average stay must part with close to a liter of blood for testing--much of it unused and thrown out--microanalyzers have been developed to scrutinize...
...positive weekend for the Crimson and should bode well for the team's trip to the Coast Guard for the Danmark Trophy Regatta next weekend...