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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...talking about a very intense light force that can vary in its wavelength. So you can chemically excite the chemicals or molecules within fingerprints or blood, and that excitement makes the specimen glow - it becomes visible to the naked eye. Then you'd have to remove whatever you're looking at and bring it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Trick a Polygraph | 7/11/2001 | See Source »

...turn to look them in the eyes. Maureen Kelly, a 40-ish California blond with a rock 'n' roll outlook and a cat tattoo on her ankle, laughs at my discomfort. She does makeup and dresses the dolls. "See that one?" she says, pointing to a fairly haggard-looking specimen. "She did the Realdoll movie with porn star Ron Jeremy." Jeremy, built like a hairy, oversexed walrus, was apparently more than the poor thing could take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Well, Hello, Dolly | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Joey Ramone Joey was a gangling glandular freak with skin like milk, thin but with wide, girlish hips, topping out at 6'5" or 6'6". He was probably the oddest-looking physical specimen to ever front a successful rock band. He never looked healthy, always pasty and white like something hidden from the sun for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pal Joey | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

When Aryan specimen Ashley Parker Angel (could any stage name be more transparent?) pulls out his guitar for the acoustic “Love Should Be a Crime,” the show reaches a new low. Even the two chords he strums through the song are inaudible; thankfully they forgot to plug in the guitar...

Author: By Stanley P. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: O-God-Please-Stop | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

...been moved. Insects can offer this information because they are so predictable: a species will tend to stick to certain foods and environments, and given the same weather conditions, its members will develop at the same pace. Comparisons with baseline data will quickly tell the age of a particular specimen - and thus the time of death - and whether it has been transferred from its normal habitat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dead Men Tell No Tales — But Bugs Do | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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