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DEFINITION: (noun) A policeman who patrols a given region. SYNONYMS: flatfoot. USAGE: The patrolman was familiar with the area and knew the noises he was hearing were coming from foraging raccoons, not people.

Cronkite is considered the father of American television journalism. He served as CBS Evening News anchor from 1962 to 1981, during which time he became known as the "most trusted man in America," according to popular opinion polls. His stature is second only to Edward R. Murrow in terms of talent and veracity in broadcast news reporting. During one broadcast, Cronkite experienced a rare loss of composure when announcing what event?

Dr. Sigmund Freud introduced his authoritative theory on why people dream and what dreams really mean in The Interpretation of Dreams. The book introduces the Ego and describes Freud's theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation. Dreams, in Freud's view, are all forms of "wish-fulfillment," that is, attempts by the unconscious to resolve a conflict of some sort. How many times was the book revised by Freud?

This technique is used for the conception of a human embryo outside the mother's body. Several ova, or eggs, are removed from the mother's body and placed in special laboratory culture dishes; sperm from the father are then added. If fertilization occurs, the fertilized ovum, after undergoing several cell divisions, is either transferred to the mother's or a surrogate mother's body for normal development in the uterus, or frozen for later implantation. What does "in vitro" mean in Latin?

Montenegrin police seized two Siberian tigers and arrested three people for trying to smuggle the endangered animals. The tigers were found in a van near the town of Niksic on a road that connects Montenegro and Bosnia. The suspects face charges of trafficking a protected species; the tigers are each worth around $380,000. Siberian tigers were hunted nearly to extinction by the mid-20th century. Fewer than 400 of the animals remain in the wild.