Word: casefuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only fair that we should take Ms. Guinier's own advice about how to deal with representing minorities--in this case the minority which has had quite enough of Ms. Guinier's oft-repeated apologia for her writings...
...French officials are concerned, the case is closed: The crash that killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul two years ago was Paul's fault, and not that of the nine photographers pursuing the car through the Paris streets. In his decision, released Friday, Judge Herv? Stephan said that the accident was "due to the fact that the driver of the car was inebriated and under the effects of drugs incompatible with alcohol, which did not allow him to maintain control of his vehicle." Fayed was also responsible, the judge ruled, for ordering a drunken Paul to drive their...
Build a better mousetrap and the world beats a path to your door. Build a better mouse and suddenly you're not worrying about putting the kids through Harvard. Or, in this case, Princeton, where a team of researchers have modified a single gene to produce smarter mice. According to a study to be published in Thursday's edition of Nature, mice whose brains were made to produce more of the protein NR2B became more adept at those traditional benchmarks of rodent intelligence, recognizing previously encountered Lego blocks and realizing when they are about to get an electric shock...
...whose trial for the murder of his wife inspired the "Fugitive" TV series and movie, has relented and will not contest the exhumation of his mother's body by state prosecutors. "It is emotionally wearing," Sheppard said Monday, complaining of the 45 years prosecutors have had to investigate this case and of the further delays the exhumation will pose for his $2 million suit for the wrongful imprisonment of his father. But after a 10-year fight to clear his father?s name, Sheppard and his lawyer figure they?ve got little to lose. Said attorney Terry Gilbert: "We feel...
...identification came as no surprise to Michigan authorities: They had arrested Reding with Kevorkian when the two men allegedly dropped off a body at a Detroit hospital. Reding was found innocent of charges stemming from the incident. He had also been suspected in three previous assisted-suicide cases in Michigan but not prosecuted. He now faces first-degree murder charges in New Mexico. Charlie Brown, the deputy district attorney of Sandoval County, says he isn't interested in debate about assisted suicide, which is against the law in New Mexico. "I'm just trying to keep it a simple murder...