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After they were sentenced, the case faded from most people's memories until last January, when Matias Reyes, a convicted murderer and rapist serving a 33-years-to-life sentence, confessed that he alone had raped the jogger. Citing new DNA evidence that corroborated Reyes' involvement in the crime and noting discrepancies in the earlier confessions, Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau last week asked a judge to throw out the convictions of the five men. District Judge Charles J. Tejada is expected to rule in their favor, opening the door for the five to file civil lawsuits. But whatever...
...crimes. Samudra, according to police sources, said one of the bombs that exploded in Kuta was, as he put it, a "martyr bomb," carried by a man known as Iqbal. If that proves true, Kuta would be the first known suicide bombing in Southeast Asia. Police are currently comparing dna from more than 400 body parts found in Bali with a sample from Iqbal's mother. Last week Malaysian authorities arrested four more suspected terrorists who they say had been trained as suicide bombers...
...Biologist Jennifer Leonard, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, and her co-authors collected the remains of dogs buried in North, Central and South America before Columbus showed up (and thus before interbreeding with European dogs could have taken place) and sampled their mitochondrial DNA, or MTDNA, which is passed on only from the mother. If these ancient American dogs had arisen locally, their MTDNA should have been similar to that of American wolves. Instead, it was closest to that of modern Eurasian dogs. Conclusion: the transition from wolf to dog took place exclusively...
...much about himself can he really change at the age of 54, and how much is embedded in his DNA? Gore now acknowledges that he micromanaged his campaign into incoherence. "I don't think I'm a very good political tactician. As a matter of fact, I think I'm pretty lousy at it," he told TIME. "I don't think I'm a good campaign manager, particularly not good at managing myself as a candidate." Or managing others: Where Bush relied on--and trusted--a few key advisers like Karl Rove and Karen Hughes, Gore's team...
...minutes; Churchill creates galaxy-size stories with black-hole prose. In "A Number" she has pared future shock, tomorrow horror, down to the bone - past the bone, really, to the DNA that makes every clone a Bernard, and every Bernard pathetically or tragically different...