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...making a matching error is one in 1,000. DNA, however, is unique for each individual, and a matchup between a crime-scene sample and material obtained from the accused (usually in a blood sample) is virtually unassailable, say experts. Declares John Huss of Cellmark Diagnostics in Germantown, Md., another DNA-testing firm: "Except for identical twins, one in 4 trillion or 5 trillion people might share the same genetic fingerprint...
Rehabilitate old units. Though public housing is routinely condemned as a failure, there are 800,000 applicants on the waiting lists to get into it. Public-housing developments like St. Louis' Cochran Gardens and the Montgomery County, Md., program demonstrate that well-maintained, well-managed projects can be successes and not eyesores or breeding grounds for crime. Yet about 70,000 of the country's 1.3 million units are vacant: uninhabitable while awaiting repair or occupied by squatters. The Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program, which provides funds for the maintenance and rehabilitation of public-housing projects, was cut from $2.5 billion...
...Army game was a big game for us," Co-Captain Eric Bentley said. "It shows how much progress we're making this year." Harvard lost to Army, 11-5, earlier in the year at its first tournament in Annapolis, Md...
...arrested, but was barred from the Rockville, Md., building...
...result, not only is time running out on statehood, but the District's right to "home rule" may soon be in jeopardy. McKinney's death and the recent retirements of Senators Thomas Eagleton (D-Mo.) and Charles Mathias (R-Md.) have deprived the city of three of its major allies on the Hill...