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About 3,700 inmates now sit on death row. How many may be retarded? No one is sure, but states that formerly allowed them to be executed are bracing for a flood of petitions claiming mental incapacity. In Texas the Dallas Morning News' review of the state's 455 death-row inmates identified at least 20 who raised mental deficiency as an issue at trial or on appeal. North Carolina adopted a ban on executing the retarded last August. Ken Rose, the executive director of the North Carolina Center for Death Penalty Litigation, says that of the 213 condemned killers...
...world's most widely syndicated columnist; in Chicago. The elder twin sister of advice maven "Abigail Van Buren," Lederer dispensed a daily dose of common sense to 90 million readers. Homey but frank, she endorsed masturbation as a safe alternative to abstinence and in 1971 cued a flood of letters to Congress urging federal support of cancer research. Before Oprah and Sally, there was Ann--the nation's big sister...
...center is trying to do what it could not do before: pluck obscure bits of information from the flood of often irrelevant or insignificant data and connect the dots to foil a major new attack. CIA scientists are investigating exotic supercomputer programs and artificial intelligence that might help analysts link hundreds of thousands of names, places and bank accounts. Teams have even been sent to pick the brains of Hollywood scriptwriters who dream up far-fetched terror spectaculars. When the analysts return to Langley, they comb their databases to see if al-Qaeda has the capability to carry out such...
...hearings into intelligence lapses attest, there's much to fix in Washington. Let the record show that Senator GEORGE VOINOVICH is not sitting idle. Last week the Ohio Republican took a principled stand against a Backstreet Boy. Irritated by the flood of celebrities testifying in Congress (Julia Roberts and Christie Brinkley in the past few months), Voinovich boycotted testimony by KEVIN RICHARDSON before the Environment and Public Works Committee. Kentucky native Richardson, who founded an environmental group, was asked by Democrat Joe Lieberman to speak on the dangers of mountaintop mining. Lieberman claimed that Richardson was "knowledgeable" because of flights...
...homes were washed away when the Zeyzoun dam collapsed, releasing around 71 million cu m of water, inundating villages in the al-Ghab area 350 km north of Damascus. At least 20 people died and more than 8,000 hectares of crops and power lines were swept away by flood water and mud. Many villagers fled to higher ground after they saw cracks developing in the six-year-old dam, which may have been overfilled by 5 million cu m because of exceptionally heavy winter rains. BURUNDI Rebels Fight On Rebels from the Hutu-dominated National Liberation Forces (NLF) attacked...