Word: specimens
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...company simply by making an old product better. In 1982 Ted Rice, a Kansas City TV cameraman, brought home a cinnamon roll he had bought from a vendor and asked his wife Joyce, a schoolteacher, if she could make a tastier one. After she came up with a delicious specimen topped with streusel and a thin layer of vanilla icing, they tried selling her rolls at state fairs and arts-and-crafts shows. When long lines started to form, they knew they had a hit. The Rices opened their first T.J. Cinnamons shop in Kansas City 2 1/2 years...
...Observes Johanson: "The new specimen suggests that the body pattern we call modern did not appear until Homo erectus and that it happened fairly rapidly." Says White, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley: "The question is, Why did they lose those features, and what made them change in just 200,000 years...
Those whose samples are rejected for any reason, or whose behavior suggests they might have cheated, will be forced to provide a second specimen "under direct observation." Anyone whose urine shows drug traces will be required to return to the bathroom. If the subsequent exam brings positive results, the guilty will be required to undergo counseling. Workers who refuse as a matter ! of principle to submit to testing can be dismissed...
...this scene a) a typically clumsy 19th century attempt at pornography, b) a rather silly self-indulgence by Gustave Flaubert, c) a shocking specimen of male chauvinism, d) all of the above or e) none of the above? Skeptical common sense suggests that the best answer would be b or perhaps d. To Bram Dijkstra, an erudite and passionately indignant professor of comparative literature at the University of California at San Diego, the only answer is c. In case anyone thinks he is making too much of Salammbo's gyrations, Dijkstra wants us to know that a painting...
About 200 specimen bottles were given away and never returned because some people were too embarrassed to urinate in them and others used the plastic containers as drinking glasses or souvenirs, organizers said...