1.   He treats Jody like a rare specimen.

2.   Stan never sells rare specimens to the public.

3.   I felt flush to have such a rare specimen.

4.   If such fossils are then sold into private collections, scientists will have a harder time getting access to rare specimens.

5.   Instead, the rare specimens were the best evidence and may now end up in museums.

6.   So what do these rare specimens do?

7.   The case against Microsoft Corp., which began Monday, is a rare specimen of a fascinating sort of drama.

8.   A judge has imprisoned a man who painted cheap, common parrots with hair dye and then passed them off as rare specimens worth thousands of dollars.