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Even to the most hardened investigators, the worst part of examining a decomposing corpse can be coping with its buzzing, wriggling, burrowing infestation of flies, maggots and other insects. Even coroners--not normally the queasiest of folk--can find themselves affected. But to Canadian Gail Anderson, 39, "it's really just a science." Professor Anderson is head of the forensic entomology laboratory at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. It is the first university lab in North America founded for the sole purpose of refining the ways in which insect biology can help solve crimes...
Worse still, all of Whitman's best "green" assets, particularly with regard for open space, are countered by a Secretary of the Interior (Gail Norton) who, according to one New York Times letter writer, has "pro-business views [that] make Christie Whitman look like John Muir." Her record on environmental issues is similarly murky, and there is evidence that, in her position as the attorney general of Colorado, Norton rejected the prosecution of a number of pollution cases which would have hurt business interests. Two of the largest lawsuits were subsequently pursued by private environmental groups and resulted...
...DIED. GAIL FISHER, 65, groundbreaking African-American actress-model who won an Emmy for portraying secretary Peggy Fair on the long-running '70s detective series Mannix; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. Credited as the first black actress to earn a speaking part in a national TV ad (for All detergent), she turned her bit part on Mannix into a major role within one season...
...Such fervor caused Li's handlers to recast the New Year's message. Says New York spokeswoman Gail Rachlin: "The essay is about stepping out and telling of evil, not about creating evil." Such fine-tuning may be too subtle for the thousands of believers who flock to Beijing to voice their protest. Indeed, New York's disowning of the five immolators has bewildered some Falun Gong adherents living in China. "I know that violence is against the spirit of Falun Gong," says a 53-year-old factory worker from Nanjing. "But why don't our foreign friends support...
...roll out in March, joins a growing supply of ruggedly designed, off-road transportation for babies, including a stroller for the "rough road" market from Eddie Bauer. The Jeep strollers are the first to be named after an auto brand. "It seemed like a natural fit," says Gail Smith, marketing vice president for Chicago-based Kolcraft Enterprises, which licensed the Jeep name from parent company DaimlerChrysler. "They're geared to handle urban potholes," she notes. How about bumpy hills? "I don't know that you'd want to take a baby up a mountain in them...