Word: blooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprising that Huey P. Newton ended the way he did: lying in a pool of blood on a sidewalk in a crack-infested Oakland neighborhood with three bullets in his head. For much of his 47 years, Newton had preached and practiced violence as a necessary means of self-defense for blacks in urban America. He will be remembered most as the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, enthroned in a rattan chair, wearing a black beret, with a rifle in one hand and a spear in the other...
Jagger and Richards have spent a fair part of the '80s separately pursuing extra-Stones interests, playing the Bickersons in the rock press whenever they were queried about the plentiful tensions within the band. It was tough to pin down, even when the sniping drew a little blood, precisely what the boys were bitching about. Keith wanted to tour, Mick wanted to cruise the night life; individual ambitions ran contrary to the good of the band. Whatever it was, it seemed likely that they had been together too long -- 27 years, to be exact. So when Slipping Away begins...
...majesties" -- and loved flirting with the flame. That shadow Keith Richards talks about was always there, deeper and darker than with most bands. Mick was a dandy about his decadence; Keith was devout. One book about the Stones even insisted (over Richards' later bemused denials) that Richards had his blood washed, changed and purified...
...another case decided last week, a New York State judge raised some doubts about the courtroom use of DNA technology. Forensic DNA tests seek to compare the genetic patterns of a suspect or victim with those of the human remains, such as blood or semen, left at the scene of a crime. Proponents of DNA identification have long insisted that the tests are so precise that they can establish matches or exclusions to a near certainty...
Specifically, the decision means that the tainted tests may not be introduced to show that a bloodstain found on Castro's watch came from the victim, though other acceptable DNA tests by Lifecodes may be used to show that the blood does not belong to Castro. Beyond this immediate case, the ruling is expected to embolden many of the hundreds of defendants fingered by DNA tests around the country to challenge the procedures used to identify them...