Word: forli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If a physicist says he is being sent off to a salt mine these days, he may not be joking. He could be heading 40 km (25 miles) east of Cleveland, where an 81-ton digging machine is carving a huge cavity in a salt mine 600 meters (2,000...
Now that idea is being challenged by, among others, Physicists Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow of Harvard and Pakistani Abdus Salam, winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics for showing an underlying unity of two of nature's four basic forces: electromagnetism and the so-called...
There was one case, she remembers well, when she was turned down 21 consecutive times. But Patsy Morris is not one to take rejection personally, and she finally got an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer to say yes. Small wonder she runs into resistance: what she wants is 200 to...
Dubbed the Queen of Death Row by one appreciative convict, Morris, 49, a mother of four and a staunch opponent of capital punishment, is death penalty coordinator for the Georgia affiliate of the A.C.L.U. She normally does not start hunting for lawyers until after the defendant has been convicted and...
Morris begins her quest by asking the trial lawyer to remain with the case. If that fails, she calls attorneys who are her personal friends, then friends of friends. "Literally every attorney I know in Georgia who does any criminal work at all has a death case," she says. Usually...