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...earlier, in the week's other landmark Internet ruling, a Philadelphia court blocked enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act, Congress's latest attempt to ban cybersmut. The law was intended, its backers say, to protect children from "teaser ads"--sexually explicit free samples that many porn sites offer before making users pay by credit card. But the court agreed with critics who said the measure would curb not only teasers but a wide range of less racy Internet speech directed at adults...
Just a few weeks after the release of "A Civil Action," the Robert Redford film based on the 1986 landmark court case Anne Anderson, et. al v. W.R. Grace, et al, the real-life cast members gathered at the Harvard Law School (HLS) last Saturday to discuss the continuing importance of their case as a teaching tool in classrooms...
...reclaim the land--now dotted with red FOR SALE signs and yellow NO TRESPASSING signs--got a boost. The U.S. Department of Agriculture agreed to settle a 1997 class action that had accused the agency of denying black farmers loans and crop subsidies routinely available to white farmers. The landmark agreement requires the government to pay as much as $375 million to more than 3,500 black farmers. Most will probably accept the basic option guaranteeing a $50,000 tax-free payment and retirement of any government debts, which average about...
...audacious proposal was quickly denied federal funding. Venter and Smith pushed ahead anyway--and within a year they had succeeded. The publication of their 1995 paper in Science was a landmark that galvanized researchers. For the first time, the genetic secrets of an entire living organism had been exposed...
Ashi's deteriorating condition made her eligible for a landmark experiment proposed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. In September 1990 a team led by Drs. W. French Anderson and R. Michael Blaese extracted T cells from Ashi and exposed them to mouse leukemia viruses into which human ADA genes had been spliced. The viruses, which the researchers had rendered harmless by removing all their genes, invaded the T cells and burrowed into their DNA, carrying the ADA gene with them. Finally, a billion or so of Ashi's T cells, many of them now outfitted with...