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...coverage, she says, is a "multidisciplinary challenge." A Simpson trial reporter needs to be "a lawyer, a sleuth, a Hollywood entertainment specialist, an expert in race relations, a sociologist and a political strategist." That's why we're glad to rely on a couple of correspondents with a multitude of gifts...
...LATEST PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1? THE unwed mom. "The epidemic of illegitimacy is our most serious social problem," says Bill Clinton. "It drives everything else," says Charles Murray, the conservative sociologist--"crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare, homelessness...
...accurately these images reflect America's sexual interests, however, is a matter of some dispute. University of Chicago sociologist Edward Laumann, whose 1994 Sex in America survey painted a far more humdrum picture of America's sex life, says the Carnegie Mellon study may have captured what he calls the "gaper phenomenon." "There is a curiosity for things that are extraordinary and way out," he says. "It's like driving by a horrible accident. No one wants to be in it, but we all slow down to watch...
...believe that any unchaperoned confession by a retarded defendant is suspect. As a teen, Davis was diagnosed with "organic brain disfunction," which doctors date to a bicycle accident suffered at age 10; in their judgment, he falls within the "borderline range of intelligence." According to Richard Ofshe, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in interrogation techniques, "Mentally retarded people get through life by being accommodating whenever there is a disagreement. They've learned that they are often wrong; for them, agreeing is a way of surviving." Eliciting a confession from such people, he adds, "is like...
...evidence may support this theory. In a study published five months ago, sociologist Linda Williams of the University of New Hampshire tracked down 129 women who, as children, had been taken to emergency rooms in the late 1970s for abuse-related injuries. Nearly two decades later, 20 of them said they could not remember their hospitalization. Williams determined that the children who had been the most severely abused-and abused at the youngest age-were the most likely to have forgotten the experience...