Word: expertly
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...after he parked his getaway car. But the defense easily popped this balloon, pointing out that dozens of people in the area might own such trucks. The FBI did not find McVeigh's fingerprints on the truck rental agreement, the ignition key or other pieces of evidence (although an expert testified that this was not unusual). This week prosecutors have the delicate task of introducing evidence from the FBI forensics lab, which has been excoriated in a recent Justice Department report...
...judge in the Oklahoma City bombing trial barred further questions about the scathing federal report on problems in the FBI crime lab. The defense had hoped to use the report to cast extensive doubt on the physical evidence that the FBI lab examined, and disqualify the prosecution's FBI expert testimony. But the judge, during cross-examination of FBI chemist Steven Burmeister, barred discussion of the larger problems in the FBI crime lab, including those documented in a highly critical Justice Department. The report, released in April, found that FBI scientists had produced flawed work or slanted their findings...
Various proposals on how to do that have been put forward, several by Bruce Blair of the Brookings Institution, a leading expert on nuclear weapons. Missile nose cones, he suggests, could be replaced by large, blunt tips, or disabling pins could be inserted into rocket engines. Indeed, warheads could actually be removed from the missiles, under mutual inspection procedures. All of the steps could be reversed, but they would build in a safety valve of time, giving an opportunity to reflect...
...assignments that are drawn as much as possible from primary sources and that encourage and leave time for choice and exploration of sources; require weekly or semi-weekly essays, or problem sets in the form of coherent essays, on prescribed topics related to the reading assignments; supply prompt and expert feedback on the essays; allow students to revise each essay in the light of discussion leaders' comments and classroom discussions; hold well-organized and skillfully directed semi-weekly discussions...
HIFIP Executive Director Thomas D. Mullins said the database project was born soon after he met information technology expert S. Nazim Ali in Bahrain in 1994. Ali is now director of operations for HIFIP...