Word: helping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students hunched up in cubicles pore over case files and draft legal motions. In a corner, boxes are piled high with letters from prisoners pleading to have the project take their case. The law school pays most of the bills; private foundations, including George Soros' Open Society Institute, help with the rest...
...opened, students and staff screen the cases using the Innocence Project's criteria: When the inmate was tried, was identity the key issue? (If he admitted he pulled the trigger but claimed it was self-defense, there's not a lot a DNA test can do to help.) Was biological evidence taken at some point? In rape cases semen is generally recovered, and in murder cases there is often hair or skin evidence. But some samples come from less obvious sources: in the World Trade Center bombing case, DNA was recovered from saliva on the back of a postage stamp...
...newly sanitized New York City, the family-friendly Big Candy Apple--imagine Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer as hosts of GMA from Times Square's porno paradise of a few years ago--and despite its already jammed sidewalks, the city has welcomed the cameras (the networks provide security to help control crowds). Friedman, who conceived Today's studio when he was its executive producer, even gives the show partial credit for the city's image turnaround, and his successor, Jeff Zucker, calls it "probably the best daily advertisement for the city." But now that imitators are jumping...
...cargo pants, so you don't have to look at their long faces as they sullenly contemplate another nine-month jail term of homework. But before you walk out of Target or K Mart, consider a stop in the software aisle. The latest reference and productivity packs could actually help cheer up your kids in another way--by helping them get their homework done faster and better. Here are my top picks for students in junior high...
...found I could apply the same techniques to banners, flyers and Web pages. Since I didn't have to learn anything new, I whizzed through my next projects. High school and college students should have little trouble getting comfortable with Print Shop, but younger kids may want some help from Mom or Dad. As for me, I felt I was a pro in less than an hour...