Word: labs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cars through their paces. Chrysler figures the track can cut the time it takes to simulate the punishment the average car undergoes in 100,000 miles from six weeks to two. For the foreseeable future, however, the company doesn't plan to transfer its technology from the lab to the open road. "This stuff is not ready for Mr. and Mrs. America out on the highway," says Bernard Robertson, Chrysler's v.p. of engineering technologies...
...rogue agent has been a willing witness for the defense at some of the country's most high-profile criminal trials. A forensic chemist specializing in explosives residue, he gave testimony critical of FBI lab work in the World Trade Center bombing trial and was on the defense team's witness list in the O.J. Simpson trial, where he stood ready to testify about evidence contamination. And now, with hearings under way in the Oklahoma City bombing case--in which late last week in Denver, Judge Richard Matsch ruled that defendants Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols could be tried separately...
Relentless, self-promoting and self-righteous, Whitehurst has been a thorn in the FBI's side almost from the day he arrived at the lab in 1987. He has alienated colleagues by complaining about working alongside--or under--agents with academic credentials less impressive than his. He has also singled out for criticism two respected agents--Tom Thurman, head of the explosives unit and the man responsible for cracking the mystery of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103; and Roger Martz, head of the chemistry and toxicology unit--both of whom worked on the Oklahoma case...
News of the incident was first published as an entry in a police blotter that reported the "mass destruction of 100 lab mice...
Kayleen interrupted fearlessly. "I like puppies. I have a chocolate lab [rador] at home...