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Soda Could Help Liquid Sleuths Solve Cold Cases

By Andrew SchneiderJul 7th 2010 – 6:30AM
Tom Williams, Getty Images

Tom Williams, Getty Images

(July 7) -- Scientists who can precisely measure hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in water and other beverages can tell where a dead woman spent the last two years of her life, whether expensive wine is worth the price and where the milk sold in fast-food stores came from. These are just some of the skills that biologists,...

FBI Makes Plea in Civil-Rights Cold Cases

By Allan LengelNov 19th 2009 – 2:38PM

(Nov. 19) -- Many decades later, the FBI still holds out hope of solving dozens of unsolved racially motivated civil rights-era murders. On Wednesday at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., FBI Civil Rights Unit Chief Cynthia Deitle announced that the agency was looking for help locating next of kin in 33 cold cases,...

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