Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After reading that DNA testing is freeing people who were wrongly convicted, I wonder whether anyone worries about defendants who were wrongly convicted using DNA testing. From 1989 to 1993, here in Oklahoma, DNA evidence was the only murder-trial evidence implicating a Native American defendant from my family. The initial defense included reports of flagrant mishandling of DNA evidence, but this was ignored. Only after three trials and with a court-appointed defense DNA expert was my family member acquitted. RUSSELL L. BATES Anadarko, Okla...
Story has it that a Washington taxi driver once told an inquiring passenger that the motto on the National Archives Building, WHAT IS PAST IS PROLOGUE, really means "You ain't seen nothin' yet." In the case of the Internet and American business, the motto could be changed to WHAT IS PRESENT IS PROLOGUE--but it would translate the same...
...senior analyst at Wheat First Union in Richmond, Va. But venture capitalists don't seem to believe it. In six months they have poured $200 million into start-ups with names like Furniture.com and Living.com In July, Ethan Allen, the Danbury, Conn., firm that has furnished upper-middle-class American living rooms for 67 years, decided to buck conventional wisdom and open an online store this fall...
...fertility of a prematurely menopausal woman by reimplanting ovarian tissue removed--and frozen--years before. While the woman, a 30-year-old ballerina, has yet to try to conceive, one important first step has occurred: she ovulated and had a period. The still experimental technique, developed by an Anglo-American team, may help women undergoing sterility-causing chemotherapy to preserve their fertility--and just may extend the childbearing years beyond menopause...
Sources--Good News: Child Development (9/99), American Society of Reproductive Medicine meeting; Bad News: Annals of Internal Medicine (9/21/99), Journal of the American Medical Association (9/22/99...