Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also confirming a point legal scholars have long made: that eyewitnesses are often wrong. "There's a myth that the image is burned in a witness's mind and never forgotten," says Yale Law School lecturer Stephen Bright. "In fact, science says just the opposite." And eyewitness testimony is only as reliable as the eyewitness. Two men sentenced to death for a Chicago murder and then freed by DNA evidence in 1996 were convicted largely on the testimony of a woman with a sub-75 IQ, who later said prosecutors promised to release her from jail if she testified...
...writers supply him with about half his material; when he's performing at clubs or doing his one-man specials, he writes all his jokes himself. He generally avoids computers ("I had one once, and it crashed") and instead writes his ideas down in red pen on yellow legal pads. ("I've got notepads from when I was in fifth grade.") Lately he's taken to calling up his answering machine and leaving messages for himself. His comic ideas begin as cumulus clouds of general observation before coalescing into the thunder and lightning of his stand-up. "I had something...
...previous weekend in which students they were with overdosed and were treated by paramedics. The students also told me that while they take complete responsibility for their actions, however stupid, the atmosphere on campuses is very beer-friendly. Anyone can get a keg, they say, or find someone of legal age who will. The local bars card them, "but that's a joke." They drink, they say, because they want to. They overdrink because they don't know any better...
...most recent research, published last March, backs up previous studies that came to favorable conclusions. Funded by the Home School Legal Defense Association but conducted by Lawrence M. Rudner, a respected independent statistician, the study found that 20,760 K-12 home-schooled students had median scores typically in the 70th to 80th percentile. But the sample, like previous ones, was overwhelmingly white, Christian, educated and affluent--and not comparable to a control group of public school children. "Given the education level and affluence of the parents," observes Gerald Bracey, an educational analyst in Alexandria, Va., "you could say, 'Gosh...
...conspicuously on the campus, and throughout the day he roves the grounds and buildings. During the two 40-min. lunch periods, he is in the cafeteria, eating with kids and talking to them. Several times a week, he is in front of a classroom, telling students about their legal rights and advising them on personal safety. Having a policeman in the school involves more than security, according to Curtis Lavarello, director of the 5,000-member National Association of School Resource Officers. "It is a pro-active program that builds a relationship between law-enforcement officers and students...