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During commercials, an overlay will appear at the bottom of the screen, prompting viewers to press a button to request a free sample or order a coupon or a catalogue.
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Since the Crime and Security Act became law last year, police have had powers to force thousands of past offenders across England and Wales to provide a DNA sample in order to help solve serious crimes such as murder, rape and manslaughter dating back up to 40 years.
BBC: A DNA autoradiogram
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Order a sample platter so you can try everything from pale ale to organic lager.
BBC: Mini guide to Toronto, Canada
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Since the Crime and Security Act became law last year, police have had powers to force thousands of "historical" offenders to provide a DNA sample - in order to help solve serious crimes such murder, rape and manslaughter dating back some 40 years.
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If a dealer I do not know in Cameroon sends me a monkey skull I did not order and do not want as a sample without proper permits, America will hold me responsible.
ECONOMIST: Letters
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The survey researchers and statisticians associated with the government were committed to obtaining a representative sample of the U.S. population in order to provide a true reflection of the country.
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The reason it typically takes two days to conduct a blood test and it can take as long as five is that once a nurse takes a blood sample, it must be sent to a central lab where the blood is cultured or amplified in order to let any infections grow and then cleaned.
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This machine shatters tiny amounts of a sample into its component atoms, ionises those atoms in order to give them an electric charge, and then uses that charge to attract the atoms along a tube.
ECONOMIST: Monitor
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In order to find out, we took a random sample of 38, 567 people from our database modern workers from the frontlines to the C-suite and analyzed their emotional intelligence profiles.
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