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Probably not. A better question might be, Do DNA dragnets work? The answer so far is, rarely. The largest sweep in the U.S. took place in Miami, where in 1994 cops sampled 2,300 men in search of a serial killer. The dragnet did not catch the killer. Of the 18 publicized U.S. sweeps, only one--a narrow sampling of 25 workers at a nursing home--has been successful, according to a 2004 study by criminologist Samuel Walker of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Walker called the sweeps "unproductive" and said that if they are to continue, national guidelines...
...serial dealmaker, Simon is just starting to focus more attention on his company's organic growth. Only a few months ago, Hain finally hired an in-house vice president of investor relations. (Hain's share price has always got a bit of a boost because of a widely held perception on Wall Street that Heinz, which owns about 16% of Hain in a fairly hands-off role, may eventually take it over entirely.) And Simon has handed off much of the day-to-day management duties to a coterie of seasoned, mass-market-foods veterans, most notably Carroll, formerly head...
...entertainment chairman, gave them this assignment: Write a show about plane-crash castaways on a desert island. The parallel to a certain CBS series was obvious. If Survivor was Gilligan's Island with real people, Lost would be Survivor with fake people. But Abrams, who had raised the spy serial to new heights of cliff-hanging absurdity with Alias, knew that the series would need something extra, something weird, to sustain the audience's interest...
...SENTENCED. YOO YOUNG CHUL, 33, whose murder and cannibalism of 20 people between September 2003 and July 2004 made him one of South Korea's most notorious serial killers; to death, in Seoul. Yoo, who began his crime spree after being divorced by his wife, targeted young women and wealthy senior citizens. His trial sparked renewed public support for the death penalty, although Korea has not hung a criminal since...
...call has revived rumors about a “serial whisperer,” a male said to harass female undergraduates over the phone...