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...curiously flattened too. There was no evidence of the wildfire energy of the college student, no evidence of much moral passion. More troublingly, there was no sign at all of the sweet and fleeting belief that they could try things and fail at them and try other things and discard them until they found something that truly touched and transformed them--and that they could do for the rest of their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quest For A Super Kid | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...curiously flattened too. There was no evidence of the wildfire energy of the college student, no evidence of much moral passion. More troublingly, there was no sign at all of the sweet and fleeting belief that they could try things and fail at them and try other things and discard them until they found something that truly touched and transformed them - and that they could do for the rest of their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quest For A Superkid | 4/22/2001 | See Source »

...nine months later, no budgets have been busted or prosecutors ousted. Only the rare case merits review. Pfingst's team considers convictions before 1993, when the city started routine DNA testing. They discard cases if the defendant has been released. Of the 560 remaining files, they have re-examined 200, looking for cases with biological evidence and defendants who still claim innocence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Back and Getting It Right | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...nine months later, no budgets have been busted or prosecutors ousted. Only the rare case merits review. Pfingst's team considers convictions before 1993, when the city started routine DNA testing. They discard cases if the defendant has been released. Of the 560 remaining files, they have re-examined 200, looking for cases with biological evidence and defendants who still claim innocence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: The Prosecutor: Going Back And Getting It Right | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...more. The mood of these astronomical party poopers is to discard planets, not to find them; the children of tomorrow shall grow up to find all planets found, all lands mapped--all mysteries revealed as mundane facts. The new worlds we now seek ring not our own, but faint and distant suns--poor substitutes for Galileo's heirs...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Editor's Notebook: In Defense of Pluto | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

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