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...Forensic Science Service of England and Wales has carried out 292 DNA dragnets since it began counting in 1995. So far, 61--about 20% of all sweeps--have produced significant matches, helping push an investigation toward a suspect and, on numerous occasions, a conviction. In 1998 Str??cklingen, Germany, undertook the largest collection to date. More than 16,000 men in a rural town were sampled after a girl, 11, was raped and strangled. In a quest to restore the town's innocence, entire soccer teams took the test together. The killer, pressured to participate by friends, also complied, sealing...
...since the 1998 fall of dictator Suharto, Indonesia has been losing ground on several fronts, beset by civil strife, separatist movements and terrorism. Just 11 days before the election, suicide bombers detonated explosives outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing nine and wounding 182. Earlier this year, the military undertook a brutal crackdown on Islamic separatists in the province of Aceh that left 2,200 dead, according to army estimates...
Soon after she began, Kidd immediately undertook the streamlining of the student activities office, which is responsible for supervising extracurriculars and guiding the process of starting new ones...
...scenery had not always been so auspicious for the women’s water polo team. During spring break, the Crimson undertook a slate of nine games in as many days, three of which took place in California. After taking the first three, Harvard dropped five of its last six, including a last-place finish in the ECAC tournament...
...taught at the Delhi School of Economics from 1963 through 1971, when he undertook several important projects in social choice theory—a branch of economics that addressed group decision-making by voters with different personal priorities...