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...single Bosnian state, the Bosnian Serb assembly voted itself an escape clause. The demand, which requires approval of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, would allow Serb leaders to hold a referendum on the new nation after a year. TIME's Bruce Van Voorst says that Milosevic is likely to reject both demands, and that the vote may simply be part of the Serb negotiating strategy: "It's not clear how much clout Milosevic has with the Bosnian Serbs. But it could be that Milosevic asked for this vote, so he could go to the negotiating session and say his hands...
...prosecution team decided to reject professional help in selecting the jury. "I brought into the case the best jury consultant in America, the father of the art of jury selection, Donald Vinson," says San Francisco litigator John Martel, a prosecution adviser. "And on the first day of the trial, Dr. Vinson was asked to leave the courtroom because the prosecutors were concerned that the public might feel that the jury or the jury system was being manipulated if they were using a jury consultant." "Meanwhile," Martel continues, "Jo-Ellan Dimitrius was literally steering the ship at that point...
...easy reply is that students did not reject PUCC in itself. In their disdain for the council, students remained ignorant of PUCC's activities and simply voted for the guy on their 1-M team. But this theory ignores the fact that two PUCC leaders lost races that were harder to lose than to win, where students chose five out of six or seven candidates...
...adenosine deaminase deficiency. Three infants whose hereditary disorder leaves them defenseless against microbial attacks were given healthy genes using blood from their umbilical cords. Because the doctors were able to insert the good genes into the babies before their other immune defenses had fully formed, their bodies did not reject the material as foreign. Doctors do not claim to have cured the children, but, they note, the genes are "expressing...
Though many of the younger composers, such as Goldenthal and James Newton Howard, use synthesizers and mixing boards to try out their music before they put it in front of an orchestra, nearly all the composers reject the voguish use of fully synthesized scores. "The orchestra," says Trevor Jones, "has a limited sound palette, synthesizers a vast one. But a synthesizer score sounds old very rapidly. Orchestral scoring is what you use for a long shelf life...