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...combination of such methods, the chance of making a matching error is one in 1,000. DNA, however, is unique for each individual, and a matchup between a crime-scene sample and material obtained from the accused (usually in a blood sample) is virtually unassailable, say experts. Declares John Huss of Cellmark Diagnostics in Germantown, Md., another DNA-testing firm: "Except for identical twins, one in 4 trillion or 5 trillion people might share the same genetic fingerprint...
Died. Pierre J. Huss, 63, longtime Hearst byliner who catalogued the Third Reich from Hitler's early rise to the final justice of Niirnberg, at first failing to recognize the true Nazi intent and reporting, one month after the invasion of Poland and seven months before the blitzkrieg through Belgium and The Netherlands, that Germany had "no aim to wage a war of offense," but later scooping fellow newsmen on the Hitler-Eva Braun suicide pact and becoming one of the best spotters of Communist subterfuge during a 20-year stint at the United Nations; of a heart attack...
...many newspapers and columnists, the devil's due was the back of their hand. You are a godless man, an atheist," wrote Pierre J. Huss of the Hearst Headline Service. "In coming here as a U.N. delegate, your intentions are all bad. You can leave any time, and good riddance." Hearst's New York Journal-American besought all New York to join in 60 seconds of silence "as a mute memorial to victims of Red tyranny," and later headlined a story of a few anti-Communist demonstrations in New York: HATE ROARS OVER CITY LIKE A PENT...
...politics, war, art, architecture, philosophy, commerce, science-all by way of scene-setting for the great central struggle. Durant devotes a third of the book to the forces and the men leading up to the Reformation proper-the grimly erudite Oxonian, Wyclif; the austere advance runner of Protestantism. John Huss; the peripatetic humanist. Desiderius Erasmus, who could "scarce forbear" to pray to "St. Socrates" and expressed in satire what many of his contemporaries mutely felt about the late-Renaissance church. Author Durant delightedly quotes from an Erasmus dialogue written on the death in 1513 of Julius...
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