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...main staircase, she pointed out the portraits along the wall of England's Prime Ministers, from William Pitt (1783-1801) to her predecessor, James Callaghan. The visitor remarked that there was no room left for Thatcher's picture. "Don't worry," she said with the trace of a smile, "I'll push all the others down...
...distribution process, another sample can be taken from any product to confirm its origins. The entire process costs one half of 1% of the value of the animal, according to Cunningham. If cloned-animal DNA were made publicly available (cloners now keep DNA information proprietary), Cunningham says he could trace a single steak back to an individual cloned steer in less than a week. "Tracing clones is a simpler task than what we do normally, which is tracing all animals, because there are fewer [clones]," says Cunningham...
...fence. They will sit tight as the voters of Wisconsin and Ohio and Texas and Pennsylvania go to the polls and hope the voters themselves resolve things, as they should. As Yale political scientist Donald Green says, "We are deeply suspicious of anything that does not ultimately trace its institutional roots back to an election." And there is no doubt that we have a real election going...
...Lebanese mountains that could eavesdrop on conversations throughout the Middle East and was staffed by fluent Hebrew, French and Farsi speakers. In exchange, Lebanese intelligence was obliged to pass on any information gleaned about the kidnappers of Westerners. In 1986, Lebanese intelligence used a voice frequency sample to trace Mughniyah to a hotel in Paris. A former Lebanese officer involved in the operation told TIME that French intelligence agents met Mughniyah in his hotel room, but did not arrest...
...many cases, we can trace it to a point, but after that it becomes very difficult,” Selsby said, adding that the perpetrator was probably not a Harvard affiliate...