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...Usually, we worry more about false negatives, which sometimes can happen early in the stage of some diseases, or inadequate sampling of a specimen,” Gharib writes in an e-mail...
...affair, but it wasn't always all zombies and asteroids and Mel Gibson. It has a long and distinguished literary history. As early as 1826, Mary Shelley--who also wrote Frankenstein--published a novel called The Last Man, in which a plague whittles humanity down to a single final specimen. In Samuel Beckett's play Endgame, crippled wretches crouch in a miserable bunker after some ambiguous, eschatological catastrophe, swapping gallows one-liners as their supplies dwindle...
...million Age, in years, of a girl's skeleton-thought to be the oldest remains ever found of a child-recently unearthed in Ethiopia 150,000 Estimated number of years after the death of the child, nicknamed Lucy's Baby, that Lucy, the most famous primitive human specimen, walked the earth
...Estimated number of years after the death of the child, nicknamed Lucy's Baby, that Lucy, the most famous primitive human specimen, walked the earth...
...these groups provide a social outlet for any interested student, whether shy or social, they also throw together people from different backgrounds and outlooks, on the basis of a common interest.There are, of course, less diverse extracurricular organizations—the female debater, for example, is a rare specimen. And cultural or background-based groups specialize in bringing people together on the basis of race (the Black Students’ Association), wealth (the Hasty Pudding social club), and religion (Hillel) etc. But as a whole, extracurriculars, more than any other kind of organization, classify people by what they...