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...month, the Air Force will release the results of its second study, launched after UFOlogists complained that its 1994 report did not address the issue of alien bodies. ("It seemed rational to us," explains the Air Force's Weaver, "that since we proved there were no UFOs, it automatically meant no aliens...
...crash-landed near Roswell, and 80% believe the U.S. government knows more about extraterrestrials than it chooses to let on. But those numbers don't quite capture Roswell's current hot-button status. "Five years ago, if you made an offhand reference to Roswell, nobody would know what you meant. Now everybody does." So says Kevin Randle, a UFOlogist who, as co-author of the seminal UFO Crash at Roswell and its follow-up, The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell, is one of the Incident's heartiest champions. His efforts achieved a not entirely positive validation...
McVeigh's case gives the country a chance to confront more clearly the issue of why America, alone among Western democracies, puts people to death. Is capital punishment meant to benefit society or provide comfort to the victimized? On the question of whether capital punishment deters crime, McVeigh doesn't shed much light; there's no deterrence value in executing a zealot (true believers, after all, want to die for the cause). But deterrence is always murky; there's no proof capital punishment discourages crime by anyone other than the criminals who get executed. Death-penalty proponent Glenn Lammi, chief...
...challenge Ms. Jones' sworn assertion that at the time I escorted her to the suite door, my pants were up. I also do not contest that I said to Ms. Jones as she left, "You are smart," although I have no recollection as to what I could possibly have meant by that...
...approval process at the Food and Drug Administration--where getting a new drug to market has often felt like swimming through Jell-O--is both a worthy and a popular cause. The appetite for free-market trial and error is limited, however, in a business where error has sometimes meant disfigurement or death. "There's a great push to try to cut down the FDA," says Fred Dorey of the Bay Area Bioscience Center in Oakland, Calif., a trade organization for biotechnology firms. "But that's from people who don't realize there is a role for government regulation...