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...viruses for biological warfare. That may be why military prosecutors are now among the first lawmen in the country to see the AIDS virus as a weapon and its willful transmission as a crime. At Fort Huachuca, Ariz., last week, Private First Class Adrian G. Morris Jr., a clerk-typist at the garrison headquarters, faced a court-martial on charges that include aggravated assault. Reason: Morris allegedly had sex with two soldiers, one male, one female, although he knew an Army screening had shown him to be an AIDS virus carrier...
...right- stuff pilot, volunteers for a Silicon Valley experiment in which he will be placed in a space capsule, miniaturized and inserted into a rabbit's body. But rival scientists invade the lab, and tiny Tuck is injected into the body of Jack Putter (Martin Short), a wimpy Safeway clerk. Before Tuck's oxygen supply runs out -- at 9 tomorrow morning -- Jack must find the courage and smarts to escape from a speeding truck, undergo a frightening face-lifting, steal a vital microchip, fight off a couple of midget dastards and win the confidence of Tuck's skeptical girlfriend...
...settle around the rectangular conference table, with the Chief at one end and the senior Associate Justice, currently William Brennan, at the other. The most junior, now Antonin Scalia, sits to Brennan's right and answers any knocks on the door or hands out any messages necessary. No law clerk or other person is in the room during the conference...
...order of descending seniority. The outcome is now provisionally decided, and the majority opinion is assigned by the Chief or by the senior Justice in the majority. Then begins the writing process, for the majority and the dissenters. A Justice produces a draft, or reworks one from a law clerk, and circulates it to colleagues. Changes may be requested or offered to pick up or hold a vote. A coalition can come unraveled; a close initial vote may wind up going the other way. So the first audience a Justice must please is within the court, but the final opinions...
...dyes. The light, an oil lamp. The instrument, a feather quill. All nature contributing to the assignment, human nature in the form of Jacob Shallus, ordinary American citizen, son of a German immigrant to Philadelphia, soldier, patriot, father of eight and, at the time of the Constitutional Convention, assistant clerk to the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The convention handed Shallus the documents for copying on Sept. 15, 1787. He had 40 hours to transfer to four sheets of parchment 4,440 words, for which the payment was $30, good money for moonlighting...