Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mysterious severed leg, found three months ago at the site of the Oklahoma City bombing, belonged to an as-yet-unidentified African-American woman--possibly the tragedy's 169th victim--according to FBI tests. Defense lawyers for prime suspect Timothy McVeigh had hinted that the leg might belong to the "real bomber" because it did not match any of the known victims...
Certainly that describes James' penal philosophy, unveiled in April, when Alabama became the nation's first state to restore the prison chain gang, putatively as an "experiment." Last week, judging the experiment successful, the James administration began strapping leg irons every day on 160 prisoners at the Limestone Correctional Facility so they could be sent to break rocks with sledgehammers...
...announced the best evidence so far that a previously unknown species of hominid strode upright at least 4 million years ago. Their find, reported in last week's Nature, consists of complete upper and lower jaws, teeth from several individuals, a piece of skull, arm bones and a leg bone. Taken together, the fossils push the emergence of two-legged walking, or bipedalism, 500,000 years earlier than any other data had indicated. Says Walker: "This gets close to the hypothesized time of splitting of the ape and human lineages...
...same time, it is, and plausibly should be, a legitimate function of government patronage to encourage promising forms of artistic expression that are not familiar enough to find their way in the marketplace. This is a thin rope to walk; the NEA fell off it and broke a leg. But you don't kill the endowment over that, any more than you abolish the U.S. Navy because of Tailhook...
Stephen Jones, lawyer for Oklahoma bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, says the newly-announced discovery of an unidentified leg in the rubble of Alfred P. Murrah building mayhelp prove his client's innocence. Jones says the leg could have belonged to the real bomber, who failed to get away in time after setting the bomb. Oklahoma medical examiner Fred Jordan today confirmed that investigators have found a leg, clad in a sock and black military style boot, that can not be matched to any ofthe other victims of the blast. Meanwhile, officials say they will hand down indictments of McVeigh...