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...later, the labs revealed their verdict: the linen of the cloth dated no earlier than the late Middle Ages. Skeptics rejoiced; romantics were subdued. One crestfallen enthusiast later wrote, "It seemed that anyone who had previously upheld any serious case for the shroud's credibility...had been dealt a fatal stab to the heart...
...Westside Middle School, as Drew's grandfather has cast him? Gretchen Woodard has another version. She told TIME her son says it was Drew who proposed an attack last month. Mitch had said no, Woodard says, but then on the bus ride home from school the afternoon before the fatal assault, Drew approached Mitch again. "Mitch told me he never meant to hurt anybody and he didn't take specific aim," says Woodard. "He just meant to scare 'em, I guess. But then something went terribly wrong." She learned of the shooting from two back-to-back phone calls...
...this means is that cell phone rustlers can now scan the airwaves, remotely tap into a call and even duplicate the cell phone's digital ID at will. As Marc Briceno, who organized the code-cracking, puts it: "We can clone the phones." What was the crypto technology's fatal weakness? Too much secrecy...
While Wurtzel's plaint is heartfelt, it isn't more than that. The book is all shapeless feeling. Wurtzel complains that predatory Joey Buttafuoco, not Amy Fisher, should be in jail. She wishes Hillary Clinton were President. She thinks Glenn Close's character in Fatal Attraction was misunderstood: the woman was just true to her feelings (never mind that many women sleep with married men but don't start boiling pets...
Critics of CAP laws say they are open to too much prosecutorial discretion and interfere with the way parents maintain control over their households, adding more grief, for example, after accidental fatal firings. Joe Sudbay, director of state legislation at Handgun Control Inc. in Washington, says that's nonsense: "The whole point of these laws is not to punish. The point is to prevent." Do they? According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last October, unintentional deaths dropped 23% among children younger than 15 years old in the years covered by CAP laws...