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Only one state, New York, actively regulates the business, requiring surrogacy agency owners to undergo a background check, demonstrate they follow screening guidelines and provide surrogates a document explaining their legal rights.
Their employees have backgrounds in space research, intelligence, climate science and the military.
KATRIN's exceptionally low background means that nearly all detected electrons originate from tritium decay, allowing for a very clean measurement of the energy spectrum.
From Science Daily
For instance, she said, the agency for many years resisted outsourcing its background check process, partly because of the cost, but also to avoid going against tradition that said the process should be handled in-house.
From Los Angeles Times
Young men and women mingled freely, perusing works of contemporary art and design objects while a band played live music in the background.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
