Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee advised Americans to drink only "moderate" amounts of alcohol, although it did not specify how much. Alcohol consumption, particularly when combined with smoking, has been linked to mouth, larynx, liver and lung cancers. Panel members were not, however, able to confirm reports that dietary fiber reduces the risk of bowel cancer. Nor was the evidence sufficient to convince them of the prophylactic benefits of vitamin E or the perils of preservatives, food dyes and other chemical additives...
...squad used wooden sticks, which tended to break and splinter. "We spent an inordinate amount of time fiber glassing and restringing them, Gunnoe says, comparing the sticks to surfboards in terms of the care and personalization they received from their owners...
...most important elements in the prosecution's case throughout the trial were damning shreds of evidence. Among them: green fibers and dog hairs found on the bodies. Those materials were said to be similar to the carpet in Williams' bedroom and the hair of his German shepherd Sheba. Last week the defense tried to show that the carpet in question was purchased in 1968, three years before the type of fiber found on the bodies was available in commercial carpets. Yet the prosecution presented a loan document indicating that the carpet was bought...
...that Williams was a bigot. Said she: "He used to call his own race niggers." In his summation, Assistant District Attorney Jack Mallard concluded: "Any person who could kill over and over for no apparent reason would have to have a split personality, be a Jekyll and Hyde." The fiber evidence, the portrait of the young man's conflicted personality and the witnesses who saw him with the victims formed a conclusive web, he argued. "In most cases circumstantial evidence is even better than direct evidence because it doesn't rely on one set of eyes...
...Wayne Williams murder Nathaniel Cater and Jimmy Ray Payne? No one saw either crime, and there were no fingerprints. But there is plenty of circumstantial evidence in the extraordinary Atlanta case, including carpet fibers found on the victims and bloodstains in Williams' station wagon. So prosecutors are placing their faith in test tubes, microscopes and forensic specialists; in hour upon hour of testimony, experts have said that all the scientific evidence points to Williams. Last week the defense fought back. Kansas State University Professor Randall Bresee claimed that the prosecution's fiber analysis was too imprecise. In fact...