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STANLEY J. COURTNEY Shrewsbury, England...
Sources: New York Times; Reuters; New England Journal of Medicine (2); AP (2); Lemelson-M.I.T. Invention Index Study...
...sweep took place in 1987 (indirectly leading to the conviction of a rapist and murderer who tried to escape detection by asking a co-worker to take the DNA test for him), the results have been more impressive--and the public far less resistant. The Forensic Science Service of England and Wales has carried out 292 DNA dragnets since it began counting in 1995. So far, 61--about 20% of all sweeps--have produced significant matches, helping push an investigation toward a suspect and, on numerous occasions, a conviction. In 1998 Str??cklingen, Germany, undertook the largest collection to date...
...sociologists, psychologists, economists and others who study this age group have many names for this new phase of life--"youthhood," "adultescence"--and they call people in their 20s "kidults" and "boomerang kids," none of which have quite stuck. Terri Apter, a psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England and the author of The Myth of Maturity, calls them "thresholders...
...disbursed to rebuild hospitals and dispensaries. President George W. Bush's program of establishing democracy in Iraq is not making its best showing at the moment. A low turnout for the Jan. 30 election will not bring an end to this unjustified war. Sufghan Sarwar Khan Bristol, England...