Word: shaler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than 1 million criminal incidents each year, suspects are not even arrested because evidence is too weak. "With DNA printing," boasts Robert Shaler of Lifecodes in Valhalla, N.Y., one of three U.S. companies that offer the analysis, "police will now be able to say with certainty, 'That's the guy,' instead of 'That could...
Studio apartments at Soldiers' Field Park, which were offered for $550 to $655 per month last year, are now $591 to $704 per month, an increase of 7 percent. One-bedroom apartments on Shaler Lane has risen by 13 percent, as have tow- and three-bedroom apartments on Walker...
...Dana Shaler, who has won several contests, offers his services as a guide to would-be mushroom hunters. He can get $200 for a day and a half in the woods, plus a $100 bonus if the pickings are good. More and more city slickers are joining mycological societies in order to stalk their own wild mushrooms with experts...
...buildings affected by the increase are Beck with Circle, the Botanic Gardens, 29 Garden St., Haskins Hall. Holden Green, 65 Mt. Auburn St. Peabody Terrace, Shaler Lane, Soldiers Field Park, Terry Terrace and Walker...
Hair is still another source of information. A single strand can reveal a person's sex, race and certain other characteristics, and experts now have the ability to read far more from a sample. Says New York City Forensic Serologist Dr. Robert Shaler: "The hair is the garbage can of the human body. Everything you eat shows up there." Knowing that it grows about 1 mm a day, Shaler insists, "we can tell if you took aspirin yesterday and drank beer from an aluminum can a week ago." Until now, only Sherlock Holmes could deduce so much from...