Scores of detectives scoured this region today for a 16-month-old girl who they believe was abducted from a crowded downtown bus terminal on Christmas Eve, a crime that the baby's mother called "the cruelest thing you could ever do".
As part of our ongoing series, "5 Things to do with a can of ______," (tuna was featured a few months back) we scoured this season's batch of chef cookbooks and found five inventive and easy to make chickpea recipes.
Evidence of the force of the winds that scour this region was everywhere.
There are, after all, only a few American playwrights who scour this country's history so probingly and imaginatively, and who find the abidingly resonant music in prophecies murmured long ago.
Dr. O'Connell and his team scour this city for the sick and homeless, administering H.I.V. drugs under bridges, dispensing soup to people sleeping on concrete benches and bandaging injuries from falls or scuffles.
But the New York City police detectives and other law enforcement officials who scour this raised lunarscape say that the hassles and nightmares are worth it for just one of those needle-in-a-haystack moments.
Evolution provides a remarkably effective way for the economy as a whole to scour this vast library for viable strategies, finding "needles of good design in haystacks of possibility," as Daniel Dennett, a philosopher, has put it.Countless firms, busily tinkering with their business models, provide a source of variation.
Mr. Obama also promised a more intensive effort to weed inefficient and bloated programs out of the federal budget in the short run, creating a White House position to "scour this budget, line by line, eliminating what we don't need, or what doesn't work, and improving the things that do".
— Spurred on by a gambling law so new that the agency charged with enforcing it does not yet exist, developers are scouring this state for places to build casinos — looking in cities and on the coast, off the Massachusetts Turnpike, by the stadium where the New England Patriots play, and even in little towns like this one, known for its summer antiques fairs and not much else.
Shulman says the agency "will be scouring this information" to identify banks, tax advisers and anyone else who may have helped Americans dodge taxes through offshore accounts.
It was while scouring this ancient landscape for evidence of early humans and other hominids that Leakey first mentioned the idea of establishing a complementary study on wild chimpanzees to the west, at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve on the edge of Lake Tanganyika.
