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All Coleman has left to argue is his "actual innocence." It is the one legal path -- albeit a narrow one -- that might enable him to circumvent the habeas corpus guidelines that now essentially restrict capital felons to a single federal appeal. Kathleen Behan, his new attorney, has been relentless in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roger Keith Coleman: Must This Man Die? | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

While catastrophic cave-ins are relatively rare in the U.S., about 260,000 former miners suffer from another killer: black lung disease. One reason could be that mine operators routinely circumvent air-safety standards established in 1969 to regulate the amount of coal dust in the mines. Now the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worker Safety: Black Marks For the Mines | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

But Brown has attempted to show that telephone technology (of all things) can actually circumvent the conventional channels for reaching out to the public. And laugh as much as you want--it's kept him in the race.

Author: By Michael H. Domesick, | Title: Beating the System | 3/18/1992 | See Source »

These conjectures about the corpus callosum have been hard to prove because the structure's girth varies dramatically with both age and health. Studies of autopsied material are of little use because brain tissue undergoes such dramatic changes in the hours after death. Neuroanatomist Laura Allen and neuroendocrinologist Roger Gorski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sizing Up The Sexes | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

In a society that may be the most pacifist on earth, the government's failed attempt to circumvent constitutional curbs in order to send noncombat personnel to the Persian Gulf at American behest provoked widespread outrage. More irritating still was the carping from Washington after Japan pledged $13 billion in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fleeing The Past? | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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