Word: wools
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...second time in a week, DNA evidence has led German police down a dead end. "Are the heads of our police stuffed with cotton wool?" asked a headline in this week's Bild newspaper. The Phantom is now considered the most embarrassing lapse in German DNA analysis...
...Towards the end of the interview, a man came into the store, looking to consign his Ben Sherman wool jacket which originally retailed...
What follows is the lesson of the day at sheep-shearing school at New Mexico State University: how to remove a year's growth of wool without nicking the sheep - or yourself - with the clippers. And how to do it without taking your back...
...noon on the second day, a nearly 6-foot-tall burlap sack was bulging with freshly cut fleece and the students were clearly ready for a break. Melendrez brought in a 250-pound ewe and promptly removed the wool in a matter of minutes, reviewing the process as he went...
...Mexico, about 150,000 ewes are shorn of their coats every year, yielding about $1 million worth of wool. It is a far cry from the 1 million ewes who grazed the state's rangeland 20 years ago. With fewer restrictions on predator controls, losses of lambs to coyotes and mountain lions have mounted in recent years, causing more and more ranchers to trade their sheep for cattle...