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...great to the public, they aren't working. A growing number of states and private groups have scrutinized these and other "mandatory-minimum laws," the generic name for statutes forcing judges to impose designated terms. The studies are finding that the laws cost enormous amounts of money, largely to lock up such nonviolent folks as teenage drug couriers, dope-starved addicts and unfortunate offenders like the Iowa man who got 10 years for stealing $30 worth of steaks from a grocery store and then struggling with a store clerk who tackled him (the struggle made it a felony...
...devoted to creating "the perfectly safe home." It offers, for example, a venetian-blind-cord shortener (so your child won't inadvertently hang himself) and a plastic "safety film" to put over windows and glass doors ("For use during hurricanes too!"). The catalog also gives you the opportunity to "Lock out 'toilet tragedies' with...
...impressed with the DVD 825 by the Philips Consumer Electronics Co. ($299, in March). It's upgradable so that new features such as better searching and zooming can be added via software discs later. Some parents may find the blocking feature (which allows you to lock out certain discs) useful. Another thing Philips announced: an under-$1,000 recordable DVD player that can record TV shows in real time. Look for that...
...human genome, in short, has turned into a headlong horse race--and the rivalry isn't always polite. The federal genome project, critics carp privately, has been shockingly mismanaged and is sorely lacking in vision. Private efforts, counter some in the public project, are pirate operations that seek to lock critical segments of God's genomic handiwork behind a barricade of patents. Beyond that, they say, speeding up the pace of discovery could lead to slapdash, incomplete results. "If this is the book of life," sniffs Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, in Bethesda...
Nonetheless, scientists with the federal project were quick to criticize Venter's new plan. They said that his genome map will be full of holes and that his financial backers will lock it up with patents, blocking the advancement of science...