Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...research as long as no cloned embryos were implanted in a womb, the panel was immediately attacked by John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe of the American Life League. The commission was permitting, he said, "two separate grave evils": the creation of a cloned human embryo and its destruction in the lab. As he put it, "This means it is O.K. to clone as long as you kill...
...under consideration as grounds for appeal include Judge Richard Matsch's ban on the defense theory that foreign terrorists were at the heart of the bombing in which McVeigh was a mere pawn and the restriction on using the FBI Inspector General's scathing report on the FBI crime lab. McVeigh's lawyers have until July 7 to file motions asking for a new trial, but that is merely the beginning of a long appeals process that likely will take this case all the way to the Supreme Court...
...believes it is prejudicial or irrelevant or simply too insubstantial, and on three occasions, Matsch refused to let Jones introduce material the latter dearly hoped to present. Matsch allowed the jury to see only a small part of a Justice Department report that harshly criticized the fbi forensics lab, which did crucial work in the Oklahoma City case; he forbade Jones to try to show that a worldwide conspiracy may have been responsible for the bombing; and he barred testimony by a government informant named Carol Howe, who Jones also hoped would deflect guilt away from McVeigh and onto others...
Without the lab report, the international conspiracy and Howe, little was left of the defense. Jones presented fewer witnesses than he might have called in a hit-and-run case, and even among that small number, there was one whose testimony went terribly awry. Daina Bradley said while she looked out the window of the Murrah building on the morning of the blast, she saw a Ryder truck pull up and a man resembling the notorious John Doe No. 2 get out and run away. This is what she had said repeatedly for two years. Suddenly, though, Bradley, who lost...
...takes some time and effort to figure out what you're going to get out of it," she says. "But when you do, it's totally worth it. I wouldn't trade this experience for anything."CrimsonEugene Y. ChangGUPTA, seen here working in lab, has made great strides in her studies of microorganisms. INSET: Glamour Magazine photo spread...