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...The second set of passengers is initially held in a military hangar, allowing the authorities to observe the “shifting anxieties in the outsized Petri dish”....
...Gillian Tett rightly points out that coronavirus has created a “plethora of local Petri dishes” of policymakers experimenting with different measures....
...The project started with a chance observation of colour coming from transparent emulsions of oil on glass Petri dishes, which Penn State researchers were studying for other reasons....
...But to most, the UK’s indigenous truffle — Tuber aestivum, a variety that has black skin, nobbled with pyramid-shaped warts — is virtually unknown....
...Nobody thought it would happen this fast, and now we are preparing to take a leap into the unknown....
...When approached in 2008, American labels laughed at the idea of handing over their precious catalogues to an unknown European start-up....
...Relatively unknown in the west, Truecaller’s app, which allows people to find phone numbers and block spam calls, is used by up to half of the population of countries such as Lebanon and Jordan....
...The sitter is anonymous, and I found myself wondering how helpful it is to label a picture of an unknown passing stranger a portrait....
...Yes, they diversify risk and direct it away from the banking system into the eventual hands of unknown buyers, but they multiply leverage like the Andromeda strain....
...In 2004 The Weekly Standard accused the Swedish Academy of “destroying literary standards” by selecting an “unknown, undistinguished, leftist fanatic” whose works “verge on gross pornography”....
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