Word: thirteeners
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...past five years, most states have made it easier to charge and punish children as adults. Thirteen-year-olds are therefore getting mandatory life-without-parole sentences, and there's nothing appellate courts can do to help them. We have effectively discarded these lives. Should we make 11-year-olds eligible for life behind bars? Nine-year-olds? Seven-year-olds? We are inching closer and closer to a moral line...
...Alpine outbreak had spread to 13 states--or at least it seemed to have. Thirteen states could also mean 13 separate outbreaks. Earlier this year, the CDC took a step to eliminate such uncertainty, employing an innovative network of biotech machines called PulseNet. The hardware allows scientists to scan a bacterium and come up with a sort of genetic fingerprint unique to that cell line. Studying samples of the Wyoming E. coli as well as bugs from the surrounding states, the EIS researchers discovered that their profiles matched perfectly. The Alpine infection, it appeared, was indeed widespread...
Myhrum remained director for thirteen years before retiring...
...sotto voce about aliens they have met. He has recorded a spoken-word piece on the movie sound track for The X Files: Fight the Future. But only true believers will catch it--it's 10 minutes and 13 seconds after the last track. As any aficionado knows, Ten Thirteen is the name of Carter's production company; on the TV show, it's also the time frequently shown on clocks, 555-1013 is a common phone number, and October 13 is often the date. (It's Carter's birthday.) In Carter's piece, the text of which...
...didn't last thirteen seconds...