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...provisions will help gain broader acceptance for a procedure that helps identify criminals: DNA testing. The law provides for an FBI-run national DNA identification index -- as is currently the case for fingerprints. The technique has come under public scrutiny because of its use in the O.J. Simpson case...
Using the new application will also attract a broader and more diverse candidate pool, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67 says...
...does media parodies too, and good ones. Nick Bakay has nailed the sensitive-macho posturing of NYPD Blue's David Caruso, and the show has lampooned everything from Forrest Gump to a dippy model turned TV host named Bagitta. But She TV's horizons are broader. That became clear its first week, in an inspired sketch called "What Do Women Want?" Ostensibly a parody of a game show, it turned into a sly satire of the gulf between the sexes; a lone male contestant is trapped in a world where the rules are fuzzy and he's the only...
...life and death. In any given issue of TIME, we include, of course, many stories that are driven by news headlines -- this week's account of the I.R.A. cease-fire in Northern Ireland, for example. Other stories, like our cover on the ominous resurgence of infectious diseases, reflect broader trends that we may have been tracking and developing for weeks. Occasionally we go back to a seemingly small event of months ago, briefly noted at the time, that strikes us as ripe with human drama and moral implications, worthy of detailed digging and sober reflection. The suicide of Kevin Carter...
...memo, Green outlined three principles that he said he believes must be reflected in a "sound" benefits system: benefits are "a highly tax-advantaged form of compensation;" benefits can be used to influence the behavior of individuals "in the broader interest of institutional objectives" and large employers such as the University can use their market power to obtain group benefits unavailable to individuals...