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...double murder they did not commit reached a $36 million settlement with Cook County. In their suits, the so-called Ford Heights Four charged that the sheriff's office fabricated evidence and ignored or hid leads pointing to the four men who actually committed the crime. In the past dozen years, Illinois has freed 11 men from death row--one less than it has executed since 1977. Nine of the freed men were black or Latino...
Much of that success comes from a diffuse, hydra-headed power structure that has rebounded from repeated attempts to put it down. The general headquarters, based in central Kosovo, consists of a dozen or so men who control the political, civil and military operations of the 3,000 to 10,000 rebels. In the field, however, commanders operate with independence. There is safety in that broad, nontraditional power base: it means there is no one head for the Serbs to cut off. It has produced a wide range of K.L.A. leaders, from bloodthirsty terrorists who target civilians to patriots ready...
...pages all at once, I'd burst," he says. So he, deputy chief of reporters ANDREA DORFMAN, and TIME's science staff began working on it nearly a year ago; by last fall their list of the greatest minds of the century had been boiled down to a few dozen names. In November Elmer-DeWitt began handing out writing assignments...
Unfortunately, HIV is one of the most changeable viruses known to science. After more than a dozen years, researchers are still chasing the moving target through all its mutations, trying to find a few common elements among all the strains in circulation that they can use to concoct an effective vaccine...
...teaching evolution, the well-documented theory is on trial again. Some in the scientific community are so disturbed by what they see as an erosion of science education that they are launching a campaign to defend the teaching of evolution. Backed by the National Center for Science Education, two dozen science textbook authors, including Bruce Alberts, the president of the National Academy of Sciences, issued a joint statement on Friday decrying the religious and political pressure that has intimidated school boards and publishers around the country into choosing the most watered-down textbooks on evolution. ?This is an issue with...