Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gibe seemed aimed particularly at another Stanford scientist, David Hogness, who was leading the way in a new form of genetic roulette, appropriately called "shotgun" experiments. Hogness was using enzymes to fragment the DNA of fruit flies and then was inserting the gene material piecemeal into bacteria. That way he could reproduce the inserted genes in vast quantities and discover their functions. The technique seems to be working. To date, he has managed to isolate and identify 36 of the thousands of the fruit fly's genes. But critics fear that because the nature of many of the genes...
...union took to the new changes with all the enthusiasm of a shotgun bridegroom. With fewer officers to handle patrol duties--under Gorski's efficiency drive, the number of uniformed patrolmen has dropped from near 60 down to 46--the police had to handle larger beats, with only one officer in a patrol car instead of two. Letteri would like the department to reduce each officer's shift from eight hours to six and to increase shift overlaps--a move he says would allow the police to offer a more adequate level of protection. The officers downplay their own interests...
...named George de Mohrenschildt. But nothing ever seems sufficient to still Kennedy assassination stories; time and events merely complicate them. Last week-only an hour after a congressional investigator asked to meet with him in Manalapan, Fla. -De Mohrenschildt apparently committed suicide, by putting a 20-gauge shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. Suddenly there was intense interest in what he might have told the investigator. Sure enough, within 48 hours, a world-traveling Dutch TV newsman, Willem Oltmans, showed up to reveal to a closed session of the House Select Committee on Assassinations-plus...
...Berkley, vanished on Jan. 2. Her body turned up 18 days later in a roadside snowbank. These victims may all have been sexually molested-the Stebbins boy was. Each body was found fully clothed; two were dead from having been smothered. The exception was Jill Robinson, killed by a shotgun blast that the police think accidentally occurred when the killer panicked. All the children, including Timothy King, were last seen within a few blocks of Oakland County's main north-south commercial street, Woodward Avenue...
...Anthony Kiritsis, 44, a former car salesman, held a loan-company official with a shotgun harnessed to the victim's neck for 63 hours, demanded cancellation of a mortgage. Result: he gave up after immunity was promised; immunity was not granted...