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...grew up in Alabama and northern Florida as akid in small towns mostly, and had close contactwith nature. One of the defining experiences of mylife, though, was to live in Washington, D.C., in1939-1940 when I was just about nine or ten yearsold. I had, believe it or not, quite an experiencefor a kid. I was within walking distance of thenational zoo and a short bus ride from the UnitedStates national museum near Rock Creek park. Atthat time it was safe, so I had the combination inthis sensitive period of my boyhood of having thewonders of the zoo to visit...
...didn't know how far this would go. I thoughtthe greatest thing in the world would be to be amuseum curator, to be one of those men that I sawin Alabama riding around in green trucks with theU.S. department of agriculture collecting insects.Every kid has a bug period, I just didn't grow outof mine--it got imprinted...
...DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IS ADDING SOMETHING new to the arguments over the death penalty: the contention that a vote for capital punishment is a vote against home rule. Washington's homicide rate is down slightly this year. But one of those slain was Tom Barnes, an aide to Alabama Democratic Senator Richard Shelby. The enraged Shelby pushed through Congress a law ordering the District to hold a referendum on reinstating the death penalty, and election officials last week put a sweeping proposal on the Nov. 3 ballot. Nearly all the city's leading politicians appealed to residents to vote...
...Washington (15) 3-0-0 1491 2 3. Florida St. (2) 3-0-0 1418 3 4. Michigan 1-0-1 1283 6 5. Texas A&M (1) 4-0-0 1265 5 6. Notre Dame 2-0-1 1218 7 7. Alabama (1) 3-0-0 1182 9 8. Tennessee 3-0-0 1138 14 9. Penn St. 3-0-0 1126 10 10. Colorado 3-0-0 924 11 11. UCLA 2-0-0 811 15 12. Ohio St. 3-0-0 795 21 13. Florida 1-1-0 792 4 14. Virginia...
Lately the attacks on Carnes have widened to include his defense of instances in which prosecutors have resorted to the unconstitutional practice of using courtroom challenges to keep blacks off of juries in trials of black defendants. Rosa Davis, chief of the Alabama attorney general's appeals division, says it's simply Carnes' job to justify the actions of trial prosecutors when one of their convictions is challenged on appeal. "Our arguing for the state doesn't mean that we support racial discrimination," she insists, "any more than someone who represents a convicted murderer supports killing." But Carnes' public statements...