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Unfortunately, the defense had neglected to talk to the highway patrol officers who had investigated the scene, who testified that they set up the perimeter themselves. The prosecution capitalized on the error, dismissing the Vietnam scenario as a ludicrous ploy, and Johnson got the death sentence. The majority on the Missouri Supreme Court considered the defense's preparation good enough to let the result stand, because their mistake was not the "most likely" reason for the verdict and sentence...
What's the worst-case scenario? For Gates, it would be the court-ordered breakup of his company, but the investor might not fare badly. AT&T's spin-offs have consistently beaten the market since the government split that company. Forcing Microsoft to make its Windows source code available, opening it to competition from software writers would sting. But it would also produce incremental licensing revenue. Forcing Microsoft to design Windows to boot up AOL or another Web address would erode its dominance. But PC makers are starting to win that kind of flexibility on their own. It comes...
...earlier conclusion that the engines had been turned off had prompted wild speculation over possible motives among the crew, or even a hijacking scenario, and federal officials had reportedly been considering turning the investigation over to the FBI. But the voice recording of the final moments in the cockpit apparently gives no hint of any malfeasance, nor does it offer any other explanation for the crisis to which the crew were responding. And that means we may have to reconcile ourselves with the maddening possibility that, once again, we may never know...
...order for Harvard to now win the league outright, it will not only have to defeat defending league champion Pennsylvania this week and then Yale on the road, but both Yale and Brown will also have to lose twice, and Cornell once. This scenario appears particularly unlikely considering that Brown's two remaining opponents are Dartmouth and Columbia, two squads that boast a combined record...
...will figure out how to twiddle and reset the hands. They might concoct Methuselah pills or inject Methuselah genes into fertilized eggs and fool our mortal bodies into believing that we are forever young. "Perhaps," Benzer muses, "aging can be better described not as a clock but as a scenario, which we can hope to edit." If we died in old age at the same rate we die between ages 10 and 15, then most of us in the U.S. would live 1,200 years. We would outdo the first Methuselah, whose years were...