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...back into the period they're front-page news. They really rewrote forensic history. I think of myself these days as a really good friend to dead scientists. These guys were incredibly rewarding to me because they made such a difference and they were so forgotten - it's kind of a cautionary tale, actually. In our own narcissistic moments we can imagine that we're unforgettable, but there's not that many people that...
...today? Increasingly you start to see this hand in hand match of the criminal justice system and the forensic scientist. These professional forensics programs, once they got started, gave a support system for people who really believed this mattered. So they weren't just fringe scientists. Before they were kind of the creepy guys who liked dead bodies, but it grew into a respectable profession. Now, we're fascinated by the science...
...what happened there? When the amendment went into effect in 1920 it became rapidly obvious that the American people were not going to abide by this law. In fact, alcohol consumption rates went up hugely. The folks who were behind prohibition saw this as kind of a moral cause in which the ends definitely justified the means - they were going to make people quit drinking. They realized the major supply came from these bootleggers who were stealing industrial alcohol (which is regular grade alcohol that you add chemicals to in order to make it undrinkable) and distilling...
...Having a gender-blind housing option for the senior class is not just an LGBT issue, but is much broader, and I certainly applaud the university’s decision to follow the lead of every other Ivy League school in having some kind of gender-blind option,” said Yale junior Benjamin S. Bernard, a board member of Yale’s LGBT Cooperative...
...always kind of on the fence about ice dancing," admits Shawn Johnson, a four-time medalist at the Beijing Games in 2008 in gymnastics and a winner of Dancing with the Stars. "I never really watched it before. But having gone through Dancing with the Stars, it gives me a new appreciation for how hard they work for it," she says. And as a former competitor, she couldn't help but play armchair judge after watching the second of the three ice-dancing events in Vancouver. "Having been criticized on Dancing, I could see the different mistakes," she says...