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...body fluids or tissue and use them to identify a person with near certainty has shaken up criminalistics like nothing before. As technicians have got better at extracting DNA from ever smaller samples, the technology has become increasingly useful, allowing evidence-rich cells to be drawn from traces of sweat, tears, saliva and blood spots a tenth of an inch across. Says Barry Fischer, director of the Los Angeles sheriff department's forensics lab: "You can get good DNA from a hatband or the nosepiece of a pair of glasses...
...many darts as Kelley does, and you will occasionally hit a target. The show is sharpest when it looks at the rift between young women and ERA-era feminists, represented by vicious, condescending lawyer Meredith (Lisa Banes), a.k.a. "the Praying Mantis." "What chance does feminism have in this sweat hole when the strong women become like [the men]?" Lynne asks, referring to her older, Type A colleague. Meredith is a harpy who spits her lines like Cruella De Vil, though she hints that she's more complicated. There's the kernel of an interesting story here, about young women...
...entourage—my aunt, my uncle, two cousins and a family friend—mounted motorbikes driven by local men parked near the bank. These drivers sat here daily, dirtied by mud and sweat, eager to collect their fee of 2,500 Vietnamese Dong (roughly 17 cents). We bumped down dirt roads, ducking as tree branches swung at our heads, and were eventually dropped off in a field of tall grass. Somewhere past this field Ông Ngoai (Grandfather) was resting on the farm he cultivated as a young man—the same farm where my mother...
...understand you,” she said when I returned to Georgia at the end of April. “You quit for no reason! How drop-out make money?” Suddenly she thought I might end up as a middle-aged man, dirtied by mud and sweat, eager to collect 2,500 Vietnamese Dong. During her childhood, depression and personal turmoil were to be expected. My task, she thought, was to press on, to speed through school and complete life’s mission to support my family. Instead of carrying water buckets I was to carry...
...game Beach Head 2002. At Triotech Amusement, Tom Revolinsky, vice president of operations for Cleveland Coin Machine Exchange, a national arcade operator, unfolds himself from Ballistics, a high-speed outer-space racing game with realistic seat-rattling technology. "It was a fun game," he says a little woozily, sweat dotting his forehead. "I imagine the younger folks have a little easier time playing...