1.   At places they have conducted interviews, the investigators often seemed to ask general questions unlikely to elicit new evidence, several lab directors said.

2.   Acting lab director Paul Kimsey, who replaced Volz, said the state still plans to expand the monitoring branch after winning federal exemption.

3.   But past a certain point of modularity, lab directors need to encourage inventors to tinker with more interdependent technologies to maximize the likelihood that a breakthrough will occur.

4.   Defense attorneys finished up their cross-examination of LAPD crime lab director Michele Kestler that afternoon, raising familiar themes about sloppy work and evidence planting.

5.   If the lab directors publicly opposed the test ban, the Joint Chiefs of Staff would follow.

6.   The lab director said she assumed the leak came from the outside lab that conducted the DNA testing.

7.   The lab director said he agreed with Curran that there is no evidence of espionage in the incident.

8.   The results were announced as soon as possible, said Connie Hull, lab director.

9.   Cotton, lab director of Cellmark Diagnostics in Maryland and an expert in the science of DNA analysis, has guided the jurors through complex scientific principles.

10.   For many lab directors, it started even before then.