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Sprawling across a dusty mesa outside Santa Fe, the stark gray pen-which guards and inmates alike call "the hell-house"-was the site of one of the country's worst prison riots. In February of last year convicts went berserk, killing 33 fellow prisoners, some with acetylene torches...
James Earl Ray, serving a 99-year sentence at Tennessee's Brushy Mountain Prison for killing Martin Luther King, has long wanted to become a jailhouse legal expert. Early one morning last week, as Ray studied in the prison's law library, he was attacked from behind by...
But if public service was the beacon of the University's patent policy, it was clearly not the incentive that had originally attracted Harvard to the Ptashne case. Despite this discrepancy, the administration first introduced the Faculty to the DNA company proposal in a nine-page, single-spaced discussion memo...
Armistead said last week that he was not present at the meeting where those decisions were made. "For a long time, my personal statement on rent control has been that I don't get into the pros and cons," he said.
Recognizing the threat from computer cons, many banks have installed complex safeguards. Complicated codes are used to thwart unauthorized computer use, and some systems use special programs called audit trails that record every transaction and the user. Computer-security experts, however, admit that many criminals are easily staying one step...