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Lewontin and Hartl have fueled controversy over the statistics, not the techniques, of DNA profiling. "The foundation of the molecular biology is well laid," says James F. Crow, professor emeritus of genetics at the University of Wisconsin. "The difficulties are matters of the interpretation" of the profiles...
Next month, many of the questions still surrounding DNA profiling will be addressed when the second NRC committee meets for three days to discuss their new report. "There will be a public meeting, for at least a day, where a large number of people will come and speak," says Crow. The second report, "DNA Technology in Forensic Science: An Update," is expected to be finished by next summer...
...smart person's all-purpose entertainment event of the '90s: a deftly satirical musical-comedy puppet show that masquerades as a two-hour put-down of bad films. Three figures -- a human, Mike Nelson (played by head writer Michael J. Nelson), and two robots, Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy) and Crow (Trace Beaulieu) -- sit in front of a movie screen and, as First Spaceship to Venus or Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster or I Accuse My Parents unspools, they crack wise. That's about it, plus a sketch or two and some edgy banter with the mad scientists, Dr. Clayton Forrester...
...with bong jokes, the show offers giddy social commentary. Watching a '50s industrial film promoting General Motors cars in a gleaming world-of-tomorrow landscape, Servo (he's the red gumball machine with Slinky arms) intones, "Future not available in Africa, India, or Central or South America." Listen to Crow (the gold robot constructed of a lacrosse helmet, a split bowling pin and some Tupperware sections) explain the Hercules sex-and-pecs epics of the late '50s: they stem from "European indignation toward postwar conservatism and sexual repression, which translates onto the screen into big sweaty guys pushin' girls around...
...actor-writers answered questions about their favorite MST3K movie (Manos -- the Hands of Fate) or about the off-camera relationship of Murphy and Beaulieu to their puppets Tom and Crow (Murphy: "We have a little place up in the Poconos"; Beaulieu: "Crow and I are not on speaking terms"). The creative staff, led by producer Jim Mallon, signed autographs for hours. At another panel, Beverly Garland, plucky star of three Roger Corman dramas savaged by MST3K, said, "My God, I wish we had had that dialogue when we were doing the picture!" The convention moved to Minneapolis' State Theater...