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Word: pinpointed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...next step, Chen said, would be to pinpoint the biological pathway responsible for the onset of the disease...

Author: By Eric E Liao and Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Sweet Drinks Contribute to Disease | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...decades, historians have relied on written and oral accounts to pinpoint the killings, but it wasn't until the commission began gathering forensic evidence in 2005 that the scope of each massacre became clearer. The South Korean military, for example, claimed in reports that more than 1,000 "communist guerrillas" were killed at Bulgap Mountain that night in February. But the excavation tells a different story. Investigators found 133 intact skeletons bending their knees and clutching their fingers behind their skulls - 21 were under 16 years old and nonmilitary artifacts like toys and hairpins were found, indicating the people were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Time Running Out to Dig Up S Korea's Mass Graves? | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

...after back-and-forth exchanges, it was the Engineers that broke through more often, riding their two-goal lead to a 7-5 victory. Although Atkinson could not pinpoint specific differences between the playoff contest and the regular season meeting between the squads, he credited MIT for peaking at the right time...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifth-Place Finish Signals End of Season | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Although it’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of this new group of information-age readers, recent innovations in the publishing world confirm—if not explain—its existence. Meet the “vook,” which, according to a description on the company’s website, “is a new innovation in reading that blends a well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story.” Recently, Atria Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, has teamed up with...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: A Look at the Vook | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...didn't take police long to pinpoint a suspect in the grisly murder of Annie Le, the 24-year-old Yale graduate student found dead in a research lab Sept. 13 - the day she was supposed to be married. Almost immediately, suspicion congealed around Raymond Clark, 24, a technician with access to Le's lab, who had reportedly entered the building as many as 10 times the day she disappeared and bore suspicious wounds on his chest, arms and back. Clark was arrested Sept. 17 and charged with murder. As investigators soon learned, there was little in his past that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raymond Clark: Annie Le's Alleged Killer | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

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