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The degree of hypervariability at the eight VNTR loci was surprising considering the profound genetic homogeneity of the Brucella genus that has made differentiation so difficult.
"For a time he often brought his mother flowers for his brother's grave," Hoffmann writes in one of his surprising sentimental touches.
The death of Roy Rogers gets a surprising amount of coverage: sure, a thumbnail picture/reefer at USAT , but also top-front-with-picture at the LAT , below-the-fold-front at the WP , and a big front-page picture/reefer at the NYT . The NYT editorial (!) puts Proust on the plains with, "For many viewers, the picture of Roy Rogers, aglint in the sun, racing across the harmless West upon Trigger, is a picture as invincible to time as a childhood memory."
The constantly surprising ubiquity, in stores, dockyards, garages, banks, of the King James version of the Bible may account for what seem to visitors to be odd usages, variations often coming over at first as error; the universal use of the conditional would for the future will can lead to serious confusion, e.g., in legal documents.
The NYT front runs a Felicity Barringer piece that details an important aspect of the recent proliferation of federal investigations: prosecutors are pressing reporters more and more for their notes and other source materials and to a surprising degree, getting them.