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Alas, yes. The standard test for strep may make your child gag, but after experimenting with less invasive tests, doctors concluded that they still need to swab kids' tonsils. Just tell 'em about the ice cream...
...town's 790 males. After that, the cops may cast a wider net, reaching neighboring towns. They started by approaching men at Truro's few outposts--the post office, the pizza place, the grocery store--and politely asking each if they could swipe a lollipop-size swab inside his cheek. It's strictly voluntary, and the Truro men can say no. Then again, the police are taking the license-plate numbers of all the men they approach, and will be noting those who refuse the test...
...third anniversary of Worthington's death, local and state police, advised by FBI profilers, began swabbing for DNA--hoping to finally find a match to the person with whom Worthington last had sex, even if he was not the murderer. The year-rounders, as they are called, were not shy in responding. About 10 locals called the state A.C.L.U. chapter, which quickly sent a letter of protest to law-enforcement officials and is considering litigation. Some men have refused to give a sample, though Cape and Islands district attorney Michael O'Keefe declines to say how many. "I have...
...experiment in which a minute quantity of plutonium was separated from uranium. IAEA inspectors first became suspicious in 1997 when a swab at a research reactor near Seoul picked up traces of plutonium that shouldn't have been there. For years, Seoul offered no explanation, saying the paperwork had been lost. Finally, in September, the president of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Chang In Soon, said the traces were residual material from a "one-off test" in which fuel was taken from a reactor and dissolved in chemicals, allowing the plutonium it contained to be extracted. A confidential...
...markets. Taking into account the possibility that seasonality was a factor in the replication of the SARS coronavirus, he waited until October?about a year since the first cases appeared?and began returning to the Guangdong wild animal markets every week with his black satchel bag full of syringes, swabs and sample vials. Working with the Guangzhou CDC and the Shenzhen CDC, he paid $6 for each animal he would test to an animal trader who supplied Dongmen Market. In Guangzhou's Xinyuan Market, Yi would buy animals and haul them away in cages to the Guangzhou CDC labs, where...