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  • Mannheim Steamroller founder Chip Davis's latest hobby is caring for his two white-coated wolves, or technically 80% wolf/20% dog mixes obtained from a breeder after a lengthy application process.

    A Wild Holiday Home Candace Jackson 2011

  • Steve Hebert for The Wall Street Journal His latest hobby are his two free-roaming white-coated wolves, or technically 80% wolf/20% dog mixes obtained from a breeder after a lengthy application process.

    An Eclectic Nebraska Home 2011

  • While there are literally hundreds of photographs of white-coated male researchers making or using scientific instruments, there are almost none of women doing comparable things.

    Depictions of 20th Century Women in Science: The Smithsonian Collection Peggy 2009

  • The white-coated, hair-netted, thoroughly scrubbed-up and hosed-down food safety establishment talks a language of "bio-security", "hazard analysis" and "critical control points", but the truth is that the food industry is largely self-regulating.

    The food chain is almost broken. Who will reforge the links of trust? | Joanna Blythman 2011

  • Raimon nods and swallows hard as a white-coated technician – whose badge identifies him as a Mr.J. Aldridge hurries over to meet them with a short bow.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum 2009

  • Now the woman who climbed into the experimental cable car thing with the help of the leering white-coated man is up to her eyebrows in water.

    FLASH FLOOD • by Gay Degani 2009

  • The news should be delivered at eye level by someone who has taken the time to be still, not by some white-coated stranger who is anxiously shifting his or her weight from the left foot to the right, communicating by this unrest that they are ready to flee.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • As soon as I heard this I surmised what was going on: somebody – I'm not certain who they are, but surely the white-coated boffins of the Sir Norman Chester Institute will have something to do with it – have been carrying out a clinical trial on football managers, and Avram Grant is the distilled water.

    Is Avram Grant football's placebo effect? | Harry Pearson 2011

  • The news should be delivered at eye level by someone who has taken the time to be still, not by some white-coated stranger who is anxiously shifting his or her weight from the left foot to the right, communicating by this unrest that they are ready to flee.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • The broad-based effort to answer these and many other questions is remarkable because it has finally made it legitimate for white-coated scientists actually, mostly the blue-jeaned kind to spend their careers studying the possibilities, locations, and signatures of alien life.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

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