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...Crane, the star of TV's Hogan's Heroes, was bludgeoned to death in his bed in Scottsdale, Ariz. The crime remained unsolved for 14 years, until investigators re-examined a thread of brain tissue found in a rental car. Last week they arrested John Henry Carpenter, a video-equipment salesman, and charged him with the murder, which he denies. Forensic scientists matched the tissue with a sample from Crane's bloody pillowcase. Complained Carpenter's attorney: "How the flesh sample was overlooked for 14 years is beyond...
...timber sales on various federal lands in Oregon -- despite warnings from biologists that the sales pose a threat to the northern spotted owl. It is only the second time in the act's 19-year history that an exemption has been granted. (The previous case involved the whooping crane and a Wyoming dam project...
...Civil War television series, and its enthusiastic response, as the beginnings of higher public involvement in formerly scholarly pursuits. Rather than spending all of their time passively watching, the public--with some combination of video and computer--could potentially spend "[thirty minutes] watching, and [ninety minutes] browsing for information." Crane's computer database combines the "popular and the scholarly...
Unfortunately, Crane realizes that most of the Harvard community "assumes that most normal people aren't going to do this. "However, he knows that an interaction with the public is essential: "Nobody is going to support us for very long if they perceive us as caring for nothing but ourselves. Social scientists and natural scientists address key problems like how to maintain the economy and how to stop AIDS...we have to address ideas that resonate with in the population and provide intellectual leadership...
...present, Crane sees that Harvard perpetuates this problem. "Institutionally, Harvard does not provide enough incentives for faculty to set their work and ideas in a wider context. In many disciplines, there is no incentive but to write for other specialists." As a result, there is a "disproportionate share of the brightest minds not being directed at the most seminal problems...