Word: keying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lost three key players from last year's team, which is clearly a difficult thing to overcome," Kalil said. "This season, however, we have much more depth. We return some excellent players and we have a great freshman class...
...course, none of the student groups clamoring for new recruits in Tercentenary Theatre at Monday's activity fair would admit as much. In fact, most go out of their way to stress what a low-key, unstructured organization they...
When those letters do get opened, students and staff screen the cases using the Innocence Project's criteria: When the inmate was tried, was identity the key issue? (If he admitted he pulled the trigger but claimed it was self-defense, there's not a lot a DNA test can do to help.) Was biological evidence taken at some point? In rape cases semen is generally recovered, and in murder cases there is often hair or skin evidence. But some samples come from less obvious sources: in the World Trade Center bombing case, DNA was recovered from saliva...
...key to harnessing the crime-busting power of DNA is building up state databases, like the one that found Smith's rapist. Forty-three states now have such databases, and they are growing rapidly. Virginia's DNA bank, for example, currently has 190,000 samples, which have produced about 60 matches so far. Those successes are likely to increase rapidly as Virginia adds 8,000 DNA samples a month...
...principals and teachers are in the hallways, chatting casually with students as they pass by. At lunchtime, Teague and her staff roam the campus, saying hello and asking kids how they're doing. "To the extent that every child is known, then a school is safe," Teague says. "The key is having someone with whom they can and will talk...