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...There are plenty of experts who wonder if turning criminal science into a craze is a good thing. Solving crimes is not nearly so quick and reliable a job as a 46-min. story line would make it seem. Investigations can take months, evidence can get muddled and courts, dubious about all the new gadgetry, are often reluctant to trust it. And that doesn't touch the swamp of constitutional questions raised when a prosecutor tries to wade into a suspect's brain and DNA. "TV has romanticized forensic science," says Susan Narveson, head of the forensics...
...members of an extremist Islamic group accused of the June car bombing of the U.S. consulate. KOREA If it isn't one rogue state, it's another When George W. Bush said in January that North Korea was part of an "Axis of Evil," much of the world was dubious. Now Bush may have been vindicated, though he can't be happy about how. As the U.S. was demanding that Iraq...
Pity the pundit who tries to draw conclusions about the state of the world from the spring-summer 2003 fashion shows in Milan and Paris. Fashion forecasting is a dubious business in any year, but this year it's tougher than ever. Designers at both cities were buoyantly optimistic, unveiling ambitious new shapes and colors in the face of shrinking sales, a stuttering economy and a looming U.S.-led war against Iraq. The trends on the runways of Milan and Paris - shimmering silver, tiny skirts, Asian influences, a new top-heavy silhouette, to name but a few - were stronger...
...countries of the east," but the vibrations are becoming dissonant. Polls show that the nations most enthusiastic about the E.U. are farthest from admission (support for membership in Bulgaria and Romania, which won't get in until 2007 at the earliest, tops 70%). Those closest to joining are increasingly dubious (in only four of the 10 candidate countries do more than half the population think accession is a good thing). And those already inside the E.U. like it least (across the Union, less than 50% of people surveyed think membership is beneficial). Why does everyone seem so sick and tired...
...organizations, the Bolivarian Circles, do aid the poor, but they sometimes morph into armed gangs like the ones caught on videotape shooting at opposition civilians just before the coup. And though a recent Venezuelan Supreme Court ruling that exonerated the military officers who led last April's coup was dubious, it's hard to image that Lincoln - or Simon Bolivar, the 19th-century "Liberator" of South America who is Chavez's demigod hero - would have approved of his virulent campaign to remove the justices. "Venezuela is sitting on a barrel of gunpowder," warns Carlos Ortega, who is head...