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From crucial tracking evidence in the Scott Peterson murder trial to exculpatory call records in the Duke alleged rape case, cell phones have emerged as an important resource for both criminal investigators and defense lawyers. Now a small group of international forensic code breakers is working to go beyond the obvious and familiar - the call logs and address books - and tap deeper into our phones, into a hidden gold mine of personal information. Their work is prompting kudos from crime busters while raising concern among civil libertarians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Cell Knows About You | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

...Tourette's. Gather all these together in the same chromosomal neighborhood, and they can make trouble. "Kids who start early tend to be boys, tend to have tic disorders and, in genetic analyses, tend to have parents with tic disorders too," says John March, chief of child psychiatry at Duke University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Worry Hijacks The Brain | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...over congressional lobbying and ethics scandals, along with the Iraq War, that helped pave the way for the Democrats to take back the House and Senate. Many Democrats vowed to change Washington's "culture of corruption," the kind that sent former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham to prison. Now, as public satisfaction polls with the legislative branch hit new lows and Congress prepares for the month-long August recess, Democrats hope to push through a reform package they refer to as the most sweeping ethics and lobbying legislation in generations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Congress's Ethics Reform Serious? | 7/31/2007 | See Source »

...power--on radio and TV and in a new book, Arbitrary Justice--with hopes of reining it in. Her task, lonely at first, has gained support since North Carolina prosecutor Mike Nifong lost his job and his law license for hiding evidence in the now defunct rape case against Duke lacrosse players. (On July 26 he is scheduled to face charges of lying in court.) In October, Davis will lead a national conference on prosecutorial power, sponsored by the esteemed (at least by liberal bigwigs) American Constitution Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Outrage | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...Brendan J. Nyhan, a political science graduate student at Duke University and frequent blogger, points out that while Mankiw said he was “skeptical” of the claim that tax cuts could pay for themselves during his Senate confirmation hearing, Mankiw also denied that the administration had used “self-financing” arguments...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mankiw Defends Tax Cut Stance, Faces Online Flak | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

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