Word: seriousness
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...reason, the Innocence Project has shown, is that juries often don't require much evidence to convict people of serious crimes. In hindsight, it seems obvious that the case against Fritz--no eyewitnesses, no evidence linking him to the victim and no credible evidence linking him to the crime scene--was painfully weak. So was the case in Tulsa, Okla., against Tim Durham, who spent six years in prison (of a 3,220-year sentence) for the rape of an 11-year-old girl, until DNA cleared him. The jury ignored 11 alibi witnesses who swore Durham...
...students there were "worse than white trash--they were white toxic waste," and would beat him up regularly. Funny thing was, even though he was a misfit in Bensonhurst, after a while he didn't fit in back in Bed-Stuy either. And nobody in either place took him seriously. It was then Rock first realized he was a comic, not a fighter. "I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious," he says. "It would happen a lot. So it was like...
...software product for your kids this year, make it the Encarta Reference Suite 2000 ($64 with rebate), which includes an encyclopedia, atlas and dictionary. I love the detailed, virtual tours of natural wonders (like volcanoes), ancient ruins (Pompeii) and picturesque cities (Prague). When it's time to get serious, the homework helper suggests essay topics, then shows how to research and organize a report. Kids can cut and paste information onto electronic "note cards" included in the program, then export them to a word processor for editing and arranging. In addition to the basic encyclopedia entries for each topic, there...
Right-thinking creationists do not impugn evolution. What we reject is a universe that made itself out of nothing or is in eternal flux and presumes that we humans are little more than a strange fluke on the route to quantum mechanics. Pure evolution raises serious questions about such matters as justice, freedom and rights, for if there is no God, then, according to the principles of evolution, the more powerful must always win while the weak and inferior deserve to be trampled or eliminated. With the unqualified acceptance of evolution, the creationist concepts of perennial values of equality...
...mental illness, according to the Treatment Advocacy Center. In 1998, New York City police handled 60,000 calls to 911 regarding EDPs. The city treats approximately 344,000 people with mental illness or substance-abuse problems, according to the city's mental-health agency. Of those, 40,000 have serious, persistent mental-health problems. In Memphis, Tenn., police with mental-health training, as part of a crisis-intervention team, are sent to any scene involving an unstable individual. In Los Angeles, police specifically trained to deal with the mentally ill respond to reports of EDPs in some cases...