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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scientists at Harvard and at other universities in the United States said that the discov- ery will have major implications, but added that it was expected...
While detectives were transporting Williams across the state, and be fore the corpse had been discov ered, one officer pleaded with him, saying that the parents "should be entitled to a Christian burial for the little girl." Moved, Williams led them to the body. Since police had promised his lawyer they would not interrogate him, the court threw out his statements. Williams was convicted at a second trial, in which evidence about Pamela's body was admitted but not Williams' involvement in the discovery...
...Walco and helping find a job as a mailroom clerk in the House for Earl Randolph, a fugitive who had been serving an 18-year term for aggravated assault in Massachusetts. After leaving the House job, Randolph was arrested for male prostitution by an undercover police officer, who then discov ered Randolph was an escaped convict...
James Moriarty, a University of San Diego marine archaeologist, identifies it as a so-called messenger stone, probably of ancient Chinese origin. Such a stone could be sent sliding down an anchor chain, via the hole, to strip away accumulations of seaweed. Another stony relic, discov ered five years ago off Los Angeles by two sports divers, Wayne Baldwin and Robert Miestrell, also hints at an early Chinese presence. To Moriarty and his assistant, Archaeologist Larry Pierson, it looks very much like the type of mill stone known to have been used by Chinese sailors as anchors...
...center of dispute was a new human-made variation of the common bacterium Pseudomonas. While working at General Electric's Schenectady, N.Y., labs in the early 1970s, Indian-born Microbiologist Ananda M. Chakrabarty made a significant discov ery. Chakrabarty knew that cer tain bacteria are able to break up hydrocarbons. What he found was that the genes responsible for this capacity are not contained in the bacterium's single chromosome, or principal repository of DNA, the genetic times Instead, they reside in small, auxiliary parcels of genes, called plasmids, elsewhere in the cell. Taking plasmids from three...