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Don't make serial requests.
If we didn't let people who make serial errors in their private lives near a pitch, we'd never have had George Best, Maradona, Gazza and umpteen more.
This is daft on every front, not least because there would be no majority for it in parliament; the government was forced to make serial concessions on the trade union act, which is due to come into force next March.
Let's make serial numbers more difficult to erase, and back California in its effort to require that new handguns imprint a microstamp on each shell so that it can be traced back to a particular gun.
But they have managed instead to get all the big consumer-electronics firms to include encryption circuitry in their digital recorders so the machines cannot make "serial copies"—ie, produce a copy from an existing copy.
Or look closer to home, where women's refuges are struggling because of cuts to council budgets, and a succession of high-profile men are given acres of newsprint to demand anonymity for those accused of rape, even though the evidence shows false allegations are rare and anonymity would make serial offenders far harder to catch.
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Making serial numbers more difficult to erase would help.
Fans (like me) didn't care about that because it was the incremental ups and downs of the investigation that made Serial so addictive.
American fascination with science and engineering and disgust for a tired European tradition made serial music and other rule-bound procedures a great new adventure.
Eva Hesse, one of Ms. von Rydingsvard's major influences, made serial sculptures in the late 1960s, giving the Minimalist machinery of artists like Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd a personal, human touch.
In an effort to avoid making serial notifications to families, forensic scientists will try to first make "internal matches" -- determining whether there are multiple tissue samples from the same person -- before informing families that an identification has been made.
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