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...Angeles. Find red spots in the whites of a victim's eyes? He died by suffocation. Find a seed follicle on a strand of the victim's hair? It was ripped out of her head. To unearth these nuggets, the writers and researchers go to forensics conventions, scour gory tomes like Practical Homicide Investigation and collect gadgetry catalogs for products like Clue Spray...
...here I find myself at a loss, keenly aware of a social problem that I don’t know how to act upon. The accompanying poem, “Nature Abhors a Vacancy” by Ogden Nash, only deepens the sense of confusion: “You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx, / Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks, / From river to river you comb the town / For a place to lay your family down...
Relief may soon be on the way. Thanks to advances in the new science of genomics, researchers have started to scour bacterial DNA for new and possibly better targets for drug development. The goal is to produce a compound that works so differently from today's antibiotics that germs won't know how to start developing resistance. Other research has produced drugs that help restore penicillin's ability to clobber resistant germs, provided the compounds are given in combination...
...stork will drop a triple-sized bundle of joy in my cap-and-gowned lap as I sit through my much anticipated commencement ceremony this June. I’ll be a mother times three and with the mass of people crammed into Tercentenary Theater, I will have to scour the crowds and rope myself a hubby, Texas-rodeo style.With the mass of people crammed into Tercentenary Theater, I'll stealthily scour the crowds looking for an unsuspecting spectator and pounce like a cat with three hungry mouths to feed. Realizing that my brand new diploma really is worth...
...Each scientific discipline tirelessly plugs away at its own little well-defined niche of the physical world, collecting its stamps. Yes, much of mainstream science has come to resemble philately. Mathematicians dig their way to yet another Truth, even deeper and less applicable than the last. Evolutionary biologists scour the hills for one more pelvic girdle to add to the collection. Physicists build gi-normous machines to refine their test parameters of desiccated theories that have been around for decades, if not centuries. Molecular biologists use polymerase chain reaction on everything in sight to find the next link in some...