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Spectral Karyotyping. A form of fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) used to visualise genetic and chromosomal patterns and defects via spectral-imaging hard/software technique. SKY labels each chromosome with a different colour
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Jamie Kastner and Laura Baron Kastner (Skyjacker's Tale)
As for the claim of no injuries, the Pasdaran announced that one of its sky marshals was shot and injured in a mid-air shootout with a skyjacker in October 1997.
They were moved to tourist class, and the skyjackers were beheaded.
A Korean War veteran and electrician by trade; the Granddaddy of Skyjackers is paradoxically proud and ashamed.
One of Bauman's hitting highlights of his service career was a grand-slam home run in the eighth inning to give the Skyjackers a 6-2 victory over a team of Sooner Service League all-stars in August 1944.
The Bavarian authorities quickly capitulated to the skyjackers' demand, not only to put the bungled rescue attempt at Furtenfeldbruck behind them, but also to prevent the "propaganda bonanza" that a public trial would inevitably entail.
"We must convince all potential skyjackers that we really mean business," the General said.
The 21-year-old pop phenomenon, who yesterday signed the Mirror's petition against war on Iraq, awoke in a New York hotel as skyjackers crashed into the city's World Trade Center.
Maher suggested--and I concur with his proper use of termionology--that you could call those brutal skyjackers rabid, you could call them demented, or brainwashed, or merciless, amoral, devoid of kindness or compassion, the heartless dregs of a mad society ...
In a very real sense, terrorists now have the capacity to engage in what could be called low-intensity aerospace warfare, They have at their disposal what are for all practical purposes human intercontinental delivery systems composed of skyjackers, and terrorists who are carrying out operations thousands of miles from their base of operations."
Would-be skyjackers know that among the passengers there may be one armed, trained person prepared to put a bullet through their brain, and they don't know who it is!
In addition to taking credit for having coined such terms as "Reaganomics," "skyjackers" and "lawnscapes," Paul Harvey has for half a century laced his scripts with signature phrases including:
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