Word: detective
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These ripples can be thousands of miles long, but since they travel 100 ft. or more beneath the surface they're hard to detect directly. So scientists use satellites to pick up the subtle undulations in sea level produced as the ripples pass by. That's how NASA oceanographer Anthony Busalacchi could see early last spring that swarms of undersea waves had started to head out across the Pacific toward the coast of Peru; he followed them as they slammed into the continental shelf, then split, heading sharply south toward Chile and north toward Alaska...
According to Glickman, after four deaths in 1993 resulted from E. Coli bacterial poisoning in fast-food hamburgers, the USDA received the necessary public and Congressional support to push meat inspection programs which detect bacteria invisible to traditional methods...
...HEAD START Using a few drops of spinal fluid, a new test can detect Alzheimer's disease years before full-blown symptoms arise. The test, which is as accurate as a brain autopsy, measures NTP, a protein that's released from damaged brain cells...
...same time, Weegee had begun to detect that freakish charge in the metropolitan air that would become the signature mood of Arbus' work. There's a feral quality in a lot of the good citizens of Weegee's New York. You catch it in the gleaming eyes of the kids at a crime scene in Their First Murder; these are children who are thrilled, or at the very least intrigued, by the sight of a dead body. In some of his other people there's a passivity that is no less unnerving. You see it in his picture of Irma...
Before the program was initiated, store owners had to rely on their watchfulness to detect underage customers, he said...