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...space and science are confused in the public's eye, the space station has tainted all of science with its bloated budget. Without it, there would probably be no category of research called "Big Science," with its misleading connotations of power and bureaucracy. Nothing has suffered more from this guilt by association than the giant superconducting supercollider particle accelerator, which has the misfortune to be in Texas, also home of the Johnson Space Center, a major space-station player. Some members of Congress have decided that having both projects is too much of a good thing for the Lone Star...
...wonder whether they could have done anything to save their child. Doctors assured them that they were blameless, since no one knows what causes otherwise healthy babies to stop breathing -- although everything from viral infections to secondhand smoke has been implicated. "Whether it's rational or not, you feel guilt," says Shaw. "It's like being haunted by a little ghost for the rest of your life...
...attorneys fronting for the Mafia, would try to streamline the story, infuse action into a narrative that is mostly lawyers chatting, give an emotional history to characters who are basically plot props and . . . please, a new ending. Grisham spun a lovely yarn -- the venality, the conspiracy, the flypaper guilt -- then let it unravel at the denouement. His climax had the hero in a Florida motel waiting for a FedEx package...
...Soviet evidence, viewed in its entirety, easts a substantial doubt on Mr. Demjanjuk's factual guilt of the central allegation of the denaturalization complaint--that he was Ivan the Terrible of the Treblinka gas chambers," Wiseman wrote...
Until 1991, his certainty in Demjanjuk's guilt was supreme. "We had eyewitnesses who would place him at Treblinka," he wrote in Quiet Neighbors, published in 1984. "I put the two photos side by side and studied them for a long time. You son of a bitch, I thought...