Word: maze
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...surprised to read how easy it is to get private information about people from the Internet [TECHNOLOGY, June 2]. I know dozens of people, myself included, who have struggled through the maze of the Web for endless hours and have rarely come up with even harmless information (i.e., news in Mandarin or airline-ticket prices to L.A.). Thanks to your step-by-step instructive article on how to get information, however, that should all change...at least for would-be snoopers! JANA MCBURNEY-LIN Singapore...
...argument against the death penalty is that it is dispensed by a justice system that favors some defendants over others. In February, the American Bar Association called for a moratorium on executions because "the administration of the death penalty, far from being fair and consistent, is instead a haphazard maze of unfair practices with no internal consistency...
Thus began what Provost and her three-member team called "the Rick project." Their lives now dictated by pagers and cell phones, they took turns in the lab, almost round the clock, running tests over and over. First the stem cells were collected in an elaborate maze of plastic tubing, then they were purged of cancer cells--a confetti of malignant cells sticking to columns of coated beads like flies to flypaper. Unfortunately, the purging process wasn't eliminating all the cancer cells. The experiment seemed to be failing. Then, in a last-minute brainstorm, Provost's team decided...
Members of the officer's committee stood at the door with PBHA flyers taped to sweatshirts that already advertised the outreach organization, welcoming newcomers and handing them maps to help them find their way through the maze of programs...
...ANTONIO: Calling the death penalty "a haphazard maze of unfair practices," the American Bar Association has called for a moratorium on executions. The lawyers group plans to lobby Congress and state legislatures against the statutes that it feels are unfair. While the ABA did not come out against capital punishment, it says the administration of such laws is seriously flawed. Members want to see procedural safeguards set in place, such as providing competent counsel for all defendants and federal review of state cases for the 3,000-plus Americans on death row. The vote will find little support from conservative...