In the first extraction of our aDNA trial, a mammoth sample was used as positive control, which constitutes a suitable control because a previous study [ 45] has shown that it does contain mammoth DNA, it does not contain modern DNA and its sequence clearly differs from that of sheep.
Management of a trial similarly is a mammoth task, and the development of data collection tools and processes all take considerable effort.
Kevin Pearce, 22, of Norwich, Vt., was among many of the world's top snowboarders in Park City preparing for a pair of events next week at California's Mammoth Mountain, part of the five-event trials for the United States Olympic team.
The trial is being held at the mammoth Cook County Criminal Courthouse a few miles from downtown.
Kastor was born in nearby Waltham, Mass., and was cheered by an entourage that included Ryan Hall, her teammate from Mammoth Lakes, Calif., and the American men's trials winner.
If Ms. Crawford refers the case for trial as a capital case, it will be the start of a mammoth legal battle, said Neal R. Sonnett, a Miami lawyer who has been an observer at Guantánamo for the American Bar Association.
The witness list for the trial reads like a Who's Who of academia, and the court file includes a mammoth pile of friend-of-the-court briefs.
After the embarrassment of the Scopes trial, conservative Christians of all stripes were supposed to have sunk into the past like woolly mammoths in a tar pit.
"Whatever its attractions as a political theory or foreign policy guide," they argued, "the mammoth, all-encompassing, decadelong, worldwide Islamic 'conspiracy' alleged in the indictment cannot serve as a constitutional basis for a fair trial for the individual defendants".
