Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same Bronx, N.Y., courthouse that was depicted in Tom Wolfe's best seller The Bonfire of the Vanities. Joseph Castro, a 38-year-old janitor, stands accused of killing a neighbor and her two-year-old daughter. According to the prosecutors, a portion of DNA extracted from a spot of blood on Castro's watch matched DNA taken from the murdered mother. The chance of such a match occurring at random, said scientists called by the prosecution, was 1 in 100 million...
...natural image," warns Adri Boudewyn, spokesman for the California Milk Advisory Board. The dairy industry is concerned that critics of BST will try to turn public opinion against the hormone. Anti-BST television and radio commercials have already been produced but have not yet aired. One 30-second TV spot, created by Jeremy Rifkin, the flamboyant Washington-based opponent of most biotechnology, features a glass of milk with a hypodermic syringe lying beside it. A voice asks, "What are they doing to our milk...
...book of stories as old as once upon a time. The narrative conventions are age-old too: that man defines his nature through action; that the path to wisdom winds through false friends and moral booby traps; that maps lead to buried treasure and X always marks the spot; that manly virtue will be rewarded with a king's garlands and a kiss at the fade-out. The Indy stories are just the most recent link in a chain forged at the first campfire, when an elder spun tales to keep the clan together and the demons...
Moreover, the physicists challenged the Utah team's heat measurements, saying they were probably faulty because the solution in the setup was unstirred, the temperature was not uniform and the thermometer was placed in a "hot spot." That conclusion moved Stanford physicist Walter Meyerhof to turn poetic. Said he: "Tens of millions of dollars are at stake, dear sister and brother,/ Because scientists put a thermometer at one place and not another...
Sweeney hurled the discus 179-ft., 5-in. to capture the top spot in the event, while Mee outhustled his opponents, finishing his event with a time...