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While conducting a body search, the officers found a hypodermic needle with traces of a controlled substance. The drug, which could be either he pin or cocaine, was sent to the state police laboratory to be further analyzed...
What we resembled none of these. Instead, we beheld two clean-cut yuppies in pin-striped suits two introduced themselves as Larry and Steve. They ushered us into the neat, pastel-saturated meeting room and offered us a beverage of our choice. The drinks were on a table set with a tablecloth, doilies and long-stemmed water glasses, the chairs were lined up in neat little rows...
...pack-rat midden is a snapshot of the flora and fauna existing within about 50 m ((164 ft.)) of the midden at the time it was accumulating," explains Peter Wigand, a paleoecologist at the University of Nevada's Desert Research Institute. Scientists can pin down the approximate time the snapshot was taken by radiocarbon dating of a preserved twig or fecal pellet; the technique can date specimens that are more than 40,000 years old. And by studying middens of different vintages in the same area, researchers can in effect create a movie from a sequence of snapshots, showing changes...
...instance, if an officer is stopping a fight between two men on the street, he should not pin down the presumed assailant without first taking the time to "count one two three," calm down and assess the situation. Pinning down the victim by mistake would allow the mugger to escape, he says...
...Cash, two of country's most valuable and idiosyncratic talents. Cash has an intellectual rowdiness -- cut with an adult dose of rock -- that makes most of this new group sound like Sunday choristers. Carter (part of the legendary Carter family) is a kind of roots rebel and hard to pin down, but last year's I Fell in Love was her breakthrough hit -- Sylvia Plath at the honky-tonk...