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Because of the increase in cheating on LSAT's, the ETS now takes the thumbprint of everyone who takes the test. This procedure was adopted in 1973 after 117 scores were cancelled the year before. Formerly, a driver's license or similar photographic identification was all that was required to be admitted to the examination...
Before the thumbprint and photograph procedures were instituted, handwriting analysis was the primary technique used to investigate abnormal score increases shown up by the computer files. Williams said ETS employs three nationally-recognized handwriting experts to compare the writing on the different test sheets...
...rifle by ballistics tests. No one saw Ray shoot. A sharp lawyer presumably had a chance to raise reasonable doubt in the minds of a jury about Ray's guilt. On the other hand, the lawyer would have had to explain Ray's thumbprint on the weapon, his purchasing binoculars and a rifle, and the fact that Ray rejected a room in the Memphis rooming house where he stayed in favor of one with the assassin's view...
Human Conveyor Belt. Another underworld leader caught in the net was Sukar Narain Bakhia, 37, a 200-lb. illiterate who signs his documents with a thumbprint. He ruled the little town of Daman (formerly Portuguese Damao) south of Bombay like a personal fiefdom. By day Daman was just another sleepy seaside village with the blue Ara bian Sea lapping at its golden beaches...
...delicate petals on the ground like tinted snow. The redbuds, crab trees, azaleas, tulips and hyacinths are at their peak. For the moment anyway, for a President who resides in the center of it all, the world is sweet and beautiful and promising. And it already has the Nixon thumbprint. Right straight out the window, down the knoll and across the drive, as the President's eye goes, there is the Sequoia gigantca, which he and Mrs. Nixon planted in 1971. It is four feet high now, up eight inches since that May day It could reach 100 feet...