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...Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
...What surprised me about this issue was how far out on a limb some of our contributors were willing to go," says Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who edited three of our Visions installments. "We've got M.I.T. professors confidently making predictions--of computers' gaining consciousness or robots' throwing off their chains--that go farther than anything William Gibson has written...
...about introducing it. In the U.S., the onus is on proving that something causes harm rather than proving that it's absolutely safe. So it comes down to a clash between the can-do American ethos and the more skeptical or cautious European one." Adds TIME science editor Phillip Elmer-DeWitt, "In the U.S., the FDA has sufficient scientific prestige that the public will generally trust its assessment of any dangers involved in consuming particular foods, but in Europe there's no equivalent body to the FDA." And maybe they'd be more receptive to that idea than to "Star...
...ELMER ("GERONIMO") PRATT Black Panther, conviction overturned, gets $4.5 million. Time to go Republican...
...DIED. ELMER GERTZ, 93, crusading Chicago civil rights attorney who helped Nathan Leopold, accused with Richard Loeb of young Bobby Franks' murder in 1924's "Crime of the Century," win parole in 1958; defended Henry Miller's explicit novel Tropic of Cancer against censorship; and overturned the murder conviction of Lee Harvey Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby; of pneumonia; in Chicago...