Word: specimens
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...event, the athlete will be sent to a testing site where at least 50 milliliters (less than 2 oz.) of urine will be collected. The sample will be sent to the laboratory in two bottles: one will be stored in a sealed box in a refrigerator; the other specimen will be analyzed immediately. The urine will be placed in the gas chromatograph, which separates out constituent elements one by one. For example, amphetamines come out in three minutes, narcotics and steroids in about 20 minutes. Their presence is signaled by a "spike" in a pengraph tracing made by the machine...
...fight in favor of the hydrogen bomb (a single specimen of which completely flattened the island of Eniwetok in the Pacific and renendered it an uninhabitable, flat desert), Cold-War-oriented advocates of the hydrogen bomb sought to erase the distinction between large conventional weapons and small nuclear ones, so-called tactical nuclear weapons, by use of the cute term "nukes" to refer to these allegedly minor nuclear weapons. Today to see the sign "no nukes" on the bumper stickers of Volkswagens and other cars driven by the educated elite at Harvard and elsewhere, brings back memories of that...