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Simpson lawyer Robert Baker moved for a mistrial, which was denied. Plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli asked Fujisaki to sequester the jury for the remainder of their deliberations, citing the likelihood of further interference from aggressive tabloid reporters and book agents, several of whom quickly offered five-figure sums to the dismissed juror for an interview. Fujisaki declined, although he did revoke the courtroom pass of a Los Angeles TV station whose camera crew attempted to follow the jurors' van from the courthouse. He ordered the jurors to avoid all radio, television and newspapers until they reached a verdict...
...challenge for the states is to regulate and subsidize child care in such a way as to increase the likelihood of good outcomes for children. This is true regardless of welfare reform, of course. Bad day-care can harm the development of any child. Research has shown that children benefit when caregivers are trained and the ratio of staff to children is high. Several states license centers accordingly, requiring a minimum amount of training and setting ratios for different age groups. Welfare mothers themselves are not necessarily the best caregivers, and it is possible that in some instances welfare reform...
Michael M. Luo '98, who is a Crimson editor, says high school students accept the fact that their likelihood of admission to Harvard may be smaller because of their ethnicity, but that they do not tend to have an "angry attitude" about the situation...
Most promising of all is the possibility that scientists may someday not only lengthen life-spans but improve them as well. Researchers are starting to talk about the likelihood of people living well into their second centuries with the smooth skin, firm muscles, clear vision, high energy and vigorous sexual capabilities they once could enjoy only in youth...
Popular as some of these treatments are, what they promise is modest: a few years added here and there, and an increased likelihood that those years will be healthy ones. What the new wave of researchers is looking for is life extension that's not so much incremental as exponential. Not just a year here or there, but a doubling or tripling of human life expectancy...