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...police officer, another public servant, there is little doubt that he would have received life. With 29 school employees killed violently on the job since 1992, the National Education Association is now offering homicide insurance to the 2.6-million members of the union. Talk to the family of the slain teacher, and you can understand why they do not want to be walking down the street some day and bump into the killer of their loved...
...happy boy reunited with his dad. Editors and producers thus challenged will often use both sides' images. But a Solomon-like approach is not automatically evenhanded. News organizations tend to present conflicts from a perspective in which equal time--or photoplay--constitutes fairness. But to show a slain Jew for a slain Palestinian may imply that both sides have suffered equal losses, in a conflict in which 459 people, many of them children and most of them Palestinian, have died. Or it may imply equal culpability, in an eruption that began with Palestinian attacks. Likewise, even splitting the difference between...
...Thomas Brown (no relation to Derwin Brown), who took 81% of the vote in a field of seven candidates. At his victory party, Thomas Brown's security cordon was as thick as a President's. Derwin Brown's widow Phyllis, who wants to open a youth club in her slain husband's honor, says that since the shoot-out, she and her family have applied for gun permits. Says Ron Brown, her brother-in-law: "Obviously, people are getting nervous somewhere. The walls are starting to shake a little bit, and people are getting more desperate...
...Anderson's cases, witnesses claimed that a murdered woman had been alive, shopping at the mall, days after two young men said they had seen her slain. With the jury unsure whom to believe, insect evidence led the way. "I was able to tell them, 'No, she was very dead by then,'" says Anderson. Bugs can sometimes tell investigators what a corpse cannot. After body tissues have rotted away, insects that have been feeding on them can still be tested for drugs or poisons...
...Anderson's cases, witnesses claimed that a murdered woman had been alive, shopping at the mall, days after two young men said they had seen her slain. With the jury unsure whom to believe, insect evidence led the way. "I was able to tell them, 'No, she was very dead by then,'" says Anderson. Bugs can sometimes tell investigators what a corpse cannot. After body tissues have rotted away, insects that have been feeding on them can still be tested for drugs or poisons. Anderson does the analysis herself, but in most cases she depends on police to collect...