21.   In extensive interviews with nine teen-agers who killed their newborns, she found several patterns.

22.   In one study, Golub and colleagues found gene patterns that correlated with the prognosis for medulloblastoma, a childhood brain cancer.

23.   In time he became fascinated by the challenge of finding patterns in the seemingly random circulation of horses around the track.

24.   In the tongues of dead gray whales, the scientists found patterns of blood vessels that functioned as heat exchangers, carrying heat back into the body.

25.   It appeared to be an attempt to find a pattern between lunar months and the solar year, with many corrections and changes.

26.   Jeff Kelley, a Morningstar analyst, found no pattern of oversized performance among the funds with oversized entry requirements.

27.   MacDonell told prosecutors he could find no pattern of blood spatter and concluded it was more probable Bill Mowbray committed suicide.

28.   Mathematicians find patterns in nature, yet math itself is purely self-referential.

29.   Miczek said he has found consistent patterns of spikes and drops in levels of serotonin and dopamine, another neurotransmitter, when the rats fight and finish fighting.

30.   Meanwhile, Dr. Charles Czeisler, a physician at Harvard Medical School, found similar patterns in blind people.