Word: pattern
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...junior varsity race also followed the take-a-nice-lead-and-see-if-they-can-catch-up pattern...
What should a lioness searching for a mate look for? If she wants a partner with robust genes, she might do well to check out the pattern of whisker spots on her suitor's face. So say a pair of University of Minnesota researchers in a report in the journal Nature. After examining whisker patterns on 920 lions, they concluded that males whose black dots in the topmost row of whiskers line up evenly tended to have longer lives than lions whose spots are arranged in a more irregular fashion...
...come far too late, in fact so late that they've only reaffirmed to Milosevic that he needn't fear force." The Western allies' decision to ignore Yeltsin's potential problems and push on over the weekend for an immediate deepening of sanctions against Serbia only repeats that pattern. Sanctions have not measurably weakened Belgrade's resolve, and are not likely to. Indeed, the campaign in Bosnia is so unquestioned in Belgrade that the nominally democratic opposition last week hailed a plan to install a new parliament representing Serbs in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Croatia -- a.k.a. Greater Serbia...
...given the tawdry history of earlier efforts to link biology and crime. A century ago, Italian physician Cesare Lombroso claimed that sloping foreheads, jutting chins and long arms were signs of born criminals. In the 1960s, scientists advanced the now discounted notion that men who carry an XYY chromosome pattern, rather than the normal XY pattern, were predisposed to becoming violent criminals...
...week by Superior Court Judge John Ouderkirk produced a collective, if temporary, sigh of relief. He postponed the Denny trial until July, which will give the defense time to bolster its claim that the prosecution is racially motivated. The defense points to what it describes as a decade-long pattern of discriminatory prosecutions. If the judge agrees, the case will be dismissed. If it goes to trial, as now seems likely, the videotape will be a key piece of evidence...