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Wildlife biologists had planned to release at least a dozen gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park this morning as part of a controversial plan to bring the species back to the Northern Rockies, but the eight that made it are hardly roaming free. Late Wednesday, a federal appeals court ordered...
A national referendum on the matter is scheduled; talk shows debate the issue, and Casey Kasem even hosts a "Just say no" TV fund raiser. Meanwhile, the President's sole black adviser (Robert Guillaume) overcomes his don't-rock-the-boat philosophy to rally opposition to the trade. Yet he...
The statistics promise that kidnapped children are a hundred times more likely to be taken by friends, loved ones, parents, than by strangers. And yet, as the search for Michael and Alex Smith continued, it required too complex a calculation to suspend pity and suspect a plot. Even when wormy...
Kaye says that there is a big impact on the number of guilty pleas with DNA profiling. Also, Bloom says, "Eyewitnesses are not accurate. Eyewitnesses have testified that a given individual was the criminal and DNA tests have proven that individual could not have been the perpetrator."
But PBS' new production of The Mother, originally seen on the Philco Television Playhouse in 1954, is something of a revelation. By today's lights, it seems rather dated, obvious and slight. The plot is minimal: despite her children's pleas, a 66-year-old widow insists on looking for...