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...stock was too rough to hold them. But the police did discover a palmprint from Oswald on a section of the barrel attached to the stock. Said the Commission: "Oswald's palmprint on the underside of the barrel demonstrates that he handled the rifle when it was disassembled." A tuft of cotton fibers ? blue, grey-black and orange-yellow ? was found clinging to the rifle butt. Under microscopic examination, the fibers matched those in a shirt that Oswald had worn the day of the assassination...
Each kidney contains a million filtration units called nephrons. Each nephron is made up of a tuft of microscopic blood vessels, called a glomerulus, and each of these has a minute tubule at tached (see diagram, right). When blood flows into the glomeruli and around the tubules, one-fifth of its water content is led aside for finer filtration. One hundredth part of this is extracted and passes eventually to the bladder...
During the short mating season, a male beetle spends most of its time scuttling through the herbage searching out nubile females. When he finds one, he races in front of her, blocks her way and offers his tuft of hair as if it were a box of candy. The female almost al ways accepts the gift, leaning on the male while she nibbles the baited hairs...
...hair tuft is always offered in such a way that the female cannot nibble it without bringing her four sensitive antennae in contact with microscopic pores in the male's shell. Through the pores seeps a subtle substance that is absorbed by the female's antennae and affects her central nervous system, raising a wild excitement...
...Tuft's baseball team will enter Splinter Stadium today feeling both hopeful and honored. Playing their first contest of the year, the Jumbos have been entertaining sweet dreams of ending six years of Crimson hegemony...