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...number of executions in America keeps increasing -- 44 so far this year and perhaps 100 by the end of 1999 -- concerns about the fair application of the ultimate punishment are rising too. The reason: Of the 3,600 inmates on death row, 42 percent are black. On Thursday, in a dramatic indication of how seriously the worries have grown, the Nebraska state legislature voted 27 to 21 to impose a two-year moratorium on executions in the state to allow time to study the role of race and socioeconomic factors on capital punishment sentencing. Pro-death penalty Governor Mike Johanns...
...always, how good or bad is the reaction? For some time, the reaction to a genetically engineered type of corn called Bt corn was thought to be very good, since it produced a natural toxin that killed corn borers, and allowed farmers to forgo the use of insecticides. On Thursday, however, a Cornell University laboratory study published in the journal Nature announced some bad news: The corn produces a wind-borne pollen that can kill monarch butterflies if they ingest it. As for the future of genetically engineered crops, the finding has raised concern, but scientists are not yet ready...
Well, the bombs are paid for again. The Senate dropped the Kosovo emergency funding bill on the President's desk Friday after passing the measure by a 64-36 vote on Thursday evening -- and the President signed it later in the day. The bill, which started as a $6 billion request from Clinton, quickly swelled to $15 billion in the House after Republicans indulged in $6 billion worth of one-upsmanship (not soft on defense, they!), some long-delayed hurricane-relief funds for Central America, and a good helping of plain old pork. But add-ons like subsidies for Alaska...
David Pryor, a fellow at the Institute of Politics and a former U.S. senator and governor of Arkansas, returned to the Boston area Thursday night after spending nearly three weeks in the Albanian capital of Tirana as a volunteer with the International Rescue Committee...
...Liam Neeson's hair (not digitized; they're real extensions). We know it can't be all bad, but we don't want to tromp all the way to the multi-prestidigiplex to get squeezed out by a bunch of geeks dressed up like Boba Fett -- on a Thursday afternoon in June. Oh, most of us will see it eventually, although the early intimidation factor could make "Titanic" a tough tub to catch. The betting here is that all those other movies whose schedulers were so worried about going up against Lucas's Memorial Day Dominator are going...