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...RUSSIA Seal Cubs Face Mass Starvation Freak weather has stranded hundreds of thousands of baby seals on ice floes in the White Sea. Russian scientists said that unusually strong winds had prevented up to 200,000 baby harp, or Greenland, seals from floating to their normal feeding grounds in the Barents Sea. "Their mass death from hunger is inevitable," said a Polar Institute scientist, adding that even if some cubs could be saved, no money was available for their rescue...
Whatever the court's verdict, Ibrahim told TIME last week, he has no regrets about pressing for greater freedom in Egypt. "My only limitation is my conscience and my integrity as a social scientist," he said before giving an undergraduate lecture on revolution. "Democracy is sweeping the world. History is on our side." That's serious talk, reflecting Ibrahim's hope that Egyptians continue moving toward their goal, as best they can. But will they manage to keep their sense of humor along...
...murdering three people in a grocery-store holdup. Mark was sentenced to death. A year later Fowler's mother Anne Laura was raped and murdered, and a man named Robert Lee Miller Jr. was sentenced to die for the crime. The same Oklahoma City police department forensic scientist, Joyce Gilchrist, testified at both trials. But DNA evidence later proved she was wrong about Miller. He was released after 10 years on death row, and a man previously cleared by Gilchrist was charged with the crime. Fowler can't help wondering if Gilchrist's testimony was equally inept at the trial...
...defense lawyers say the Gilchrist investigation is long overdue. Her work has been making colleagues queasy for years. In January 1987, John Wilson, a forensic scientist with the Kansas City police crime lab, filed a complaint about her with the Southwestern Association of Forensic Scientists. (The association declined to take action.) Jack Dempsey Pointer, president of the Oklahoma Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, says his group has been fighting for an investigation "almost since the time she went to work" at the lab. "We have been screaming in the wind, and nobody has been listening...
Much of this knowledge comes from a single, powerful piece of ongoing research: the aptly named Nun Study, of which Sisters Ada and Rosella are part. Since 1986, University of Kentucky scientist David Snowdon has been studying 678 School Sisters--painstakingly researching their personal and medical histories, testing them for cognitive function and even dissecting their brains after death. Over the years, as he explains in Aging with Grace (Bantam; $24.95), a moving, intensely personal account of his research that arrives in bookstores this week, Snowdon and his colleagues have teased out a series of intriguing--and quite revealing--links...