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  • pvcDNAAPD1/11-3-06/ASEC. APD Forensic Scientist Ross Kirkendoll (CQ), shines an alternate light source on samples of fabric that have stains containing human DNA, photographed at the Metropolitan Science Center Friday Nov. 3, 2006. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvcPATERN1/11-30-05/JP2/ASEC. A tube rack holds DNA samples photographed Wednesday Nov. 30, 2005. (PAT VASQUEZ-CUNNINGHAM/JOURNAL)

  • pvc072909a/7-29-09/north. John Duran (CQ) with the Sandia National Labs Emergency Response Team works the 'Supicious Package" station with three other team members while competing in the 13th Annual HAZMAT Challenge 2009 at Los Alamos National Labs, photographed Wednesday July 29, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvcTPL3/6-4-03/jp3/biz. While working in a sound enclosure, Rick Snow (CQ), Manager of Research & Development Defense Systems Division at TPL, Inc., demonstrates how he would load an M16 round into a test apparatus before extracting data on a flashless gunpowder that TPL is developing, photographed Wed. May 28, 2003. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc072909d/7-29-09/north. Donning level A suits Fred Massaro (CQ), right, and John Foley (CQ), left, both with the Santa Fe Fire Department, work the "Overpack" station, while competing in the 13th Annual HAZMAT Challenge 2009 at Los Alamos National Labs, photographed Wednesday July 29, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvcMIND1/5-6-04/JP3/MED. The Mind Institute's Dr. John Phillips (CQ), poses for a portrait illuminated by an MRI image of a brain affected by Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy, photographed Thursday May 6, 2004. Phillips and other researchers at the Mind Institue are studying how the brains of children with cerbral palsy can be re-taught motor functions like walking, etc.. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)


  • pvc121609b/12-16-09/asec. View of radio antennas in a tight formation at the Very Large Array near Socorro Wednesday Dec. 16, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc121609c/12-16-09/asec. View inside the dish of a radio antenna at the Very Large Array near Socorro Wednesday Dec. 16, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc121609a/12-16-09/asec. Rick Perley (CQ) EVLA Project Scientist, stands in the dish of a radio antenna at the Very Large Array near Socorro Wednesday Dec. 16, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)


  • pvc111209d/11-12-09/asec. APD Forensic Scientist Mike Haag (CQ) performs forensics ballistics tests on 9mm shell casings and bullets at the APD Metropolitan Forensic Science Center Thursday Nov. 11, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc111209e/11-12-09/asec. APD Forensic Scientist Mike Haag (CQ) performs forensics ballistics tests while comparing two bullets fired from two different 9mm handgun manufacturers at the APD Metropolitan Forensic Science Center Thursday Nov. 11, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc111209c/11-12-09/asec. APD Forensic Scientist Mike Haag (CQ) performs forensics ballistics tests on a 9mm handgun shell casing at the APD Metropolitan Forensic Science Center Thursday Nov. 11, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc111209b/11-12-09/asec. With a video monitor showing two different bullets fired from two different 9mm handguns (Glock 9mm on left, and Smith & Wesson 9mm on the right) APD Forensic Scientist Mike Haag (CQ) points to unique impressions left on a bullet fired from a Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun, photographed at the APD Metropolitan Forensic Science Center Thursday Nov. 11, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)