Word: suspected
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Authorities said yesterday that they are continuing their investigation for definitive links between a murder suspect and the disappearance of Joan L. Webster, a 25-year-old Graduate School of Design student missing for more than 14 months...
...looked as if they should be at work, were herded into the buses and driven to the local police station. "These are actions that have no legal justification," Medvedev pointed out. "The police have a right to check a person's documents, but only if they suspect he or she has committed a crime...
...SUSPECT TERRAIN by John McPhee
...Suspect Terrain, the latest issue of this arrangement, is a companion volume to Basin and Range (1981). That book explained the New Geology, based on McPhee's travels through the far West with a proponent of plate tectonics. This branch of earth science grows from the theory that the planet's great land masses slide around like dishes on a boat. Over time, Africa could end up in Brazil's feijoada, Australia in China's egg foo yung...
...stuff but overrated, says Anita Harris, the geologist who guides McPhee through gaps, folds and sediment from Brooklyn to the dunes of northern Indiana. Harris reads old rock, both high and low, and she is not convinced that plate tectonics adequately explains a great deal of "suspect terrain." The whys and wheres of her disclaimers may not rivet the attention of readers whose geology begins on the front lawn and ends at the beach. But Harris' rigors of body and mind cannot fail to impress. She moves robustly over the landscape lugging her hammers and rock samples. She computes...