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Advocates of DNA fingerprinting still maintain that the tests are practically foolproof if done properly. "It's not the technology that's being challenged," says John Hicks, a deputy assistant director of the FBI, "but the proficiency of the tester." Unlike traditional fingerprinting, which is done by police experts in official labs, DNA testing is carried out by several private firms that specialize in the technique, and the courts have no direct control over the quality of the work. The tests in the Castro case were performed in 1987 by the oldest and largest company in the business, Lifecodes...
...proved valuable in several clinical trials of new drugs. Neurologists using MEMS bottles in a Yale University study of a teatment for epilepsy found that two-thirds of the seizures suffered by the patients occurred at times when they had not taken the proper dosage of the medicine. Dr. John Urquhart, a co-founder of Aprex, thinks MEMS bottles can "save lives and minimize unnecessary hospitalization and diagnostic tests...
...NATO commander General John Galvin, on the other hand, maintains that nuclear arms are indispensable in keeping peace, especially in Europe...
BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE QUINTESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY, VOL. 5 (Columbia Jazz Masterpieces). Working with legendary producer John Hammond and pianist Teddy Wilson, Billie turned out some of her greatest hits in these 1937-38 sessions: He's Funny That Way, My Man, Nice Work If You Can Get It. All that and more on this outstanding digital reissue...
...RUSSIA HOUSE by John le Carre (Knopf; $19.95). A document discounting Soviet missile capabilities is smuggled to the West. Never mind glasnost, perestroika and the cold war thaw. Are these grubby notebooks full of facts and figures true? The quest for the answer produces the author's most hair- raising thriller since The Spy Who Came In from the Cold...