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...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 of Valhalla, N.Y. The firm insists that it has refined its methods in the past two years...
...living. Some redeem 400 or more cans each day, enough to pay for a meal and a night in a flophouse. Last week attorneys for the homeless filed a lawsuit in New York, one of nine states that require deposits, alleging that some of the state's largest supermarket chains have been breaking the law to discourage the scavengers...
...potential obstacle to the largest media merger ever, the planned combination of Time Inc. and Warner Communications, was cleared away last week when Warner settled a four-year dispute with its largest shareholder, Chris-Craft Industries. Since the company holds some 15% of Warner shares, Chris-Craft could have complicated the nearly $20 billion Time-Warner merger. Chris-Craft might have done so by delaying the completion of the merger, as it did last year in Warner's acquisition of Lorimar Telepictures. Both Chris-Craft and Warner made concessions in reaching an agreement to no longer disagree. As part...
...conceits of Communism, none is more pervasive, and none more dubious, than its claim to serve the interests and fulfill the aspirations of the people. Marxist states are given to calling themselves "people's republics." The largest represents 1.1 billion men, women and children, nearly a fifth of humanity. The Chinese are supposed to read the People's Daily, entrust their security to the People's Liberation Army and obey laws passed by the National People's Congress, which convenes in the Great Hall of the People, situated, as it happens, on Tiananmen Square...
...inhabitants of Hong Kong usually reserve their deepest passions for business, not politics. But last week, in the largest and most emotional outburst ever seen in the British colony, more than 500,000 demonstrators marched through Hong Kong's narrow streets, waving pro-democracy banners and singing anthems like We Shall Overcome. Including the spectators who cheered and applauded, an estimated 1 million people, one-sixth of Hong Kong's populace, turned out to proclaim their support for the embattled students in China...