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...able to put its house in order? Critics of the department are skeptical. "The L.A.P.D. investigators have intractable conflicts of interest. They're complicit in what has happened," says Los Angeles civil rights lawyer Michael Mitchell. "The supervisors are afraid they won't be able to put a lid on it." But with the public clamoring for answers--and the FBI involved--it may be difficult to fight off the tide of reform...
...Hallelujah, ___ Bum 34 Bricklayer's burden 36 Data for detectives 37 Donna ___ (soaps actress and Giuliani's wife) 39 Campbell of Scream 42 Dolly the clone, e.g. 43 N.H. clock setting 46 Rocker likened New York to this city 48 Michigan Governor and potential running mate 51 Puts a lid on 52 It's taking a back seat to personality in the Democratic race 53 He gets the chair in planned megamerger 54 Sorrows...
...everyone agrees. The Food and Drug Administration currently exercises almost total control over the information flow from clinical trials, and while biotech companies certainly don't want their human research subjects to die, they do want to keep a tight lid on their proprietary research. "This is a highly commercial undertaking," says TIME correspondent Dick Thompson, "and most of the tests to date have failed." Still, companies that do hit on the right combination are spinning so much genetic straw into pure gold, and they don't want their competitors learning Rumplestiltskin's secrets on their dime...
...Estimates vary, but a figure of roughly 6 million people on Earth at the beginning of agriculture is reasonable. By 1798 the population reached 900 million. Agriculture altered how we related to the natural world and, in liberating us from the confines of the local ecosystem, removed the Malthusian lid in one fell swoop...
...extra $2 million in state aid, if parents and some teachers quietly argue that because of busing, overall achievement has fallen? Is it worth turning the principal and her deputies into sentries, equipped at all times not with books or rulers but with walkie-talkies, if it keeps the lid from blowing...