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...Hair is a good trap for all those things flowing through the blood system," says Ehleringer. Traces of the food, water and air we breathe show up in our hair (as do drugs and heavy metals). Some 85% of the variation in isotope levels in a person's hair is explained by variations in drinking water isotope levels in areas they spent time. This "isotope signature" from water is not complicated by other beverages because many of them are made using local water...
...Jane Doe. Twenty strands of Jane Doe's hair were analyzed using this method discovered by Ehleringer and Cerling. By studying the variation in hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in hair and water in different parts of the United States, they are able to relate it to where a person lives. "From her hair we know that she spent the last two years of her life in the Salt Lake City area and the Intermountain West and that she moved every couple of months," says Salt Lake County Sheriff's Detective Todd Park, who works cold-case homicides...
...also makes a good forensics tool because it tends to stick around, decomposing at a much slower rate than other parts of the body. A criminal may unknowingly leave behind a strand of hair, a clue for detectives now to follow up on. "A single hair can determine a person's location during the past weeks or even years," says Cerling...
...think you know that our own Joe Klein has written about your expertise in military affairs and how many of the generals said to him that the one person in the Senate who they say understands the military is Senator Clinton. He has also written that your defense and military strategy is something that you thought all along would be something you'd talk about once the general election came along. I wonder why and whether you would be willing to critique Obama plan for withdrawal from Iraq. Is there an argument you should make that perhaps he is being...
...student she was dating, she asked her brother Craig, a former basketball star at Princeton and now the head coach at Brown, to hoop it up with him, one on one. "She had heard our father and me talk about how you can tell a lot about a person's personality based on how they play," says Craig, recalling his first game against Barack Obama. "Especially when they're tired...