Word: pit
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Trials involving science often pit expert against expert, with lawyers on each side trying to expose the scientists on the other side as charlatans or proponents of "junk" theories. In 1993, however, the Supreme Court ruled in Daubert v. Merrell Dow that judges should act as gatekeepers, assessing the validity of the experts who take their stand. "Before Daubert, judges were unwilling to prevent testifying," says Joseph Sanders, a University of Houston law professor. "Now they're more willing to exclude experts." The results are dramatic, even pivotal, in cases involving breast implants. Last year Judge Robert Jones of Oregon...
...disgrace that dogs are killed for the hideous crimes of their owners. It is the owner who needs punishment. There is no dog in this world, unless it has been abused or trained to hate humans, that cannot become a loving creature. Rottweilers and pit bulls, for example, get a bad name because they are more easily hurt and affected by human cruelty than other breeds. If a dog attacks someone, look at the way it has been treated. Can you really blame the dog? HEATHER MACLEAN WALTERS Chester...
...million tons of coal a year to Virginia Power. Mettiki, the only other high-volume producer in the area, had a contract for a million tons, including some extracted from right beneath Highway 50. With both contracts due to expire on Jan. 1, the utility saw a chance to pit the two against each other in an all-or-nothing bid to be the plant's major coal supplier. It asked both Consol and Mettiki to bid for a five-year contract, with a buyer's option to renew for an additional two. Word went out in August 1995 that...
...incident would be horrific enough if it were isolated. But on that same day in Lamar, Mo., two pit bulls killed a four-year-old boy while he was playing on a lawn. On April 11, a four-year-old boy in North Carolina was slain by a Rottweiler when the child tried to retrieve a football from a fenced yard. In Prairie Village, Kans., on Feb. 22, a six-year-old boy was so brutally attacked in his own backyard by an akita that he needed 100 stitches and reconstructive facial surgery...
...themselves against violent crime. The fiercely protective Rottweiler, in particular, has gone from 15th in 1986 to the second most owned dog in the American Kennel Club's registry of breeds. (Between 1979 and 1996, according to Sacks' study, Rottweilers were responsible for 29 fatal attacks, second only to pit bulls, which accounted for 60.) Ann Martin-Gonnerman, president of the Kansas City-based National Society for the Protection of Animals, says the problem isn't so much the canines as it is a breed of people who have "got to have this big, mean dog who's only nice...