Word: valhalla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...labs, DNA testing is carried out by several private firms that specialize in the technique, and the courts have no direct control over the quality of the work. The tests in the Castro case were performed in 1987 by the oldest and largest company in the business, Lifecodes of Valhalla, N.Y. The firm insists that it has refined its methods in the past two years...
...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...
...Tammy, lately encamped nearby in a disciple's mansion, failed to make good on a $172 million offer but hope vaguely to return to their Valhalla. Jim questions whether the hotel can be filled again without a star evangelist. Him, for instance. The demoralized Fort Mill staffers are mostly relieved that the chaos has ended, at least temporarily. "All of us just want somebody to take it and carry on," said Dean Chandler, the hotel's service manager...
...Vercingetorix in Paris after he got back from his first Pacific sojourn in 1893, and the "House of Pleasure," with its lewd carvings and mottoes, that he built in the Marquesas. Tahitian myth was as literal a gift from the gods to him as Valhalla had been to Wagner. Gauguin was no anthropologist but a romantic looking for pity and terror among the vestiges of a lost Golden Age. Certainly his flight to the Marquesas was inspired by a wide reaction against Western cultural surfeit, against an industrial France fixated on money and "development." But the life he forged from...
...names of some 64 Harvard men who died on the Confederate side, fighting for a cause in which they believed, were--as a long overdue act of pietas--to be commemorated in Memorial Hall, an appropriate space might be found in the Great Hall--which is rather a Valhalla of Harvard's past than specifically a commemoration of the Union side of the Civil...