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With this survey, TIME is changing its sample from "registered voters" to "likely voters" - those most likely to cast ballots in November - to obtain a more realistic snapshot of the electorate...
...people trooped across a courtyard and through a door into the dimly lit room. Under Yurovsky's direction the group arranged itself around the head of the family as if for a family snapshot. A few words were spoken, and suddenly the doorway filled with men, 12 of them, bunched in rows of three, a tangle of outstretched arms all holding revolvers. As they opened fire, recalled one executioner, "they were so close to each other that whoever was standing in front got a burn on his wrist from the shots of his neighbor behind." Smoke, screams and blood engulfed...
...helped prompt his public charges. In the mid-1980s, when Perot was feuding with Richard Armitage, then Assistant Secretary of Defense, the Texan tried to convince Washington reporters that the U.S. Defense Department official was in no position to press the Vietnamese on MIAS. Perot's weapon: an old snapshot of Armitage at a party with several men and women, one of whom he alleged was Armitage's Vietnamese girlfriend...
...SCIENCE: Snapshot from the Edge of Time...
...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...