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...fewer than five jurors -- normally all officers, unless an enlisted defendant requests otherwise. The prosecutor and defense counsel must also be lawyers. But critics say the entire proceeding is conducted in the shadow of command influence. "All the paper guarantees pale compared to the weight of lots of brass," says Washington Attorney Gene Fidell, a specialist in military cases. Stories abound of unit commanders pressuring trial authorities to produce guilty verdicts and heavy sentences. In fact, the superior officer convening an Article 32 proceeding can order a court-martial even if the hearing officer recommends against it. And court-martial...
...West Lafayette, Ind., a Purdue University biologist who until recently was building models of viruses by laboriously fastening together hundreds of brass fittings taps away at a computer keyboard. When he is done, he has created on the screen an image of rhinovirus 14 (one of some 113 varieties responsible for the common cold) that can be turned and viewed in three dimensions. Rhinovirus 14 thus becomes the first animal virus of any kind to have its full portrait drawn...
...Jimmy Garrett (Broderick), a bright, goof-off airman who develops the same parental bond for Virgil that Teri had. Soon Teri, the Mary Beth Whitehead of primate research, is off to Florida to steal back her chimp-child. The ensuing custody battle will involve Jimmy, the Air Force brass and a balky nuclear reactor...
...Borssele, authorities let hundreds of people conduct a weekend blockade of the plant's 10 gates. The protesters sat outside the plant's barbed-wire perimeter, many sunbathing as a brass band played...
...tried to make its presence more welcome in recent years by toning down its garish yellow arches and designing restaurants that insinuate themselves into the neighborhood. On the Mississippi River in St. Louis, a McDonald's is housed in a floating reproduction of an 1880s side-wheeler, complete with brass-trimmed chandeliers...