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Genetic Fingerprinting The ability to use DNA to make a positive ID gave the criminal justice system a major boost, led to countless arrests and convictions of those who would otherwise have gone free and helped exonerate the falsely accused. Alec Jeffreys developed the process in 1985. Three years later, it put its first perp in jail...
Members of the community scheduled two meetings last month to address the recent surge of crime, according to Riverside resident Alec Wysoker...
...silver screen. A life chronicle of T. E. Lawrence, a British officer who in WWI created a guerilla force out of Arabs waging their own private wars, Lawrence of Arabia has an immortal cast: Peter O’Toole (this year’s Oscar winner for lifetime achievement), Alec Guinness (a.k.a. Obi-Wan Kenobi), Claude Rains (Casablanca’s prefect of police) and Anthony Quinn (who was Zorba the Greek). Friday, April 11 through Sunday, April 13 at 3:30 and 8:00 p.m. Tickets $8.50, $7.50 matinees. $5.50 seniors and children. Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle...
...Alec B.G. Sevy ’00, gets to exercise his artistic skills in addition to his other elf duties. Sevy’s Rice Krispie Treat sculptures have become a frequent decoration at House events. Sevy has created rice and marshmallow renditions of the Sydney Opera House and the Taj Mahal, as well as a sculptural portrait of the Masters’ late bull terrier, Albert. “Think of Michaelago with marble, and then think of Alec Sevy with rice and marshmallows,” Kirshner says. One of his creations, a giant dollar bill in honor...
...Dune saga made a good fit in that it's a space opera with a philosophical bent. Dune tells of the rise to power of Paul Atreides (Alec Newman), a young noble and psychic who is adopted by the Fremen, a nomadic warrior people, as their messiah. The Fremen have been exploited for centuries because their desert planet (Arrakis, or Dune) is the sole source of "spice," a substance that makes hyperspace travel possible, expands consciousness and extends life--it's oil, LSD and Botox all in one. (Spice is an excretion of Dune's giant sandworms, but people ingested...