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...Spatter might indicate that it was created by a forceful traumatic event. The spatter pattern can reveal a lot about what created it. But the bottom line is they're going in to a scene that hasn't even been established as a crime scene. They have to collect evidence so that later, if they need to, they can go back and make sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Trick a Polygraph | 7/11/2001 | See Source »

Looking back, Roth sees a pattern to his work: "Ever since Goodbye, Columbus, I've been drawn to depicting the impact of place on American lives. Portnoy's Complaint is very much the raw response to a way of life that was specific to his American place during his childhood in the '30s and '40s. The link between the individual and his historic moment may be more focused in the recent trilogy, but the interest was there from the start." Roth is a serious writer who has never been somber in print; his narrative voice is unique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist: Philip Roth | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...year for DVT, and says 25 patients died from pulmonary embolism between 1992 and 2000. Of the 13 deaths on arrival in 2000, he put eight down to DVT. Other doctors say Makino did not prove DVT as the cause of death. But his figures reflect a worldwide pattern: based on the numbers of passengers treated on arrival in the U.K., British doctors estimate 2,000 people contract the condition each year, 15 of them fatally. "It's the sitting still that does the damage," says Patrick Kesteven, a consultant hematologist at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, northern England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perils of Passage | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...result of all this is a community imprinted with a paisley pattern of psychedelia, a social fabric tie-dyed with a new rebelliousness and swirled with a growing sense of social malaise. "Some kids like to come up to my office to chat," says Muneo Ogishi, owner of the Elephant's Egg, a chain of Tokyo head shops that sells magic mushrooms. "They say they're using the drugs to try and meditate." It seems Japanese youth are looking for something, although it is still unclear exactly what. It is certainly not the social consciousness that drove the original hippy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo Takes a Trip | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

Much of this lack of respect may come from the recent tendency of Carolina to look outward for its leaders. While for most of its history, the leaders of Carolina were nearly always North Carolinians and Carolina graduates, this pattern has recently shifted—neither Carolina’s current chancellor nor its provost had spent any substantial time in Chapel Hill before their selection. Such a change means that Carolina’s administrators never have gotten the chance to see the uniqueness of the town and may only see the town as a hindrance to their expansion...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CHAPEL HILL: Town and Gown in Chapel Hill | 7/6/2001 | See Source »

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