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Virginia Depper was sitting in her bedroom on a quiet October evening near Tucson, Arizona, when two bullets shattered her window. As she was on the phone to 911, she began to scream in terror. She was being bludgeoned to death. What was she saying? The 911 tape is garbled, but it may have been, "No ... Dale ... don't!'' Twenty-four hours later, Depper's ex-husband, anesthesiologist Dale Bertsch, was arrested and charged with murder. Several prominent criminal lawyers he contacted quoted him fees in the $250,000 range. Instead, he used attorney Larry Hammond, who agreed to take...
...says. "I was afraid of my own temperament." As his black puppy, Harley, chews on a Gideon Bible, Moreland, now 40, lies back on the bed. "I'm starting to have tears in my eyes, just thinking back," he says. In recent months he has lived in Mesa, Tucson and Las Vegas, working as a day laborer...
Emmalee G. Cregar Tucson, Arizona...
...what Lauer and Postman might have done wrong, despite strenuous efforts to do so. The analysis is incorrect, they say, simply because it doesn't fit in with any existing theory of how the cosmos works. "Listen," fumes Lauer, who is stationed at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Tucson, Arizona, "we knew this was a shocking result. That's why we spent over a year trying to debunk it ourselves before we went public. If anyone can present a good argument why it's wrong, we'll listen...
Princeton astrophysicist David Spergel offered a telling historical anecdote in an address to colleagues at the American Astronomical Society's January meeting in Tucson, Arizona. In the 19th century, it dawned on astronomers that the orbits of Uranus and Mercury weren't exactly what theory predicted. So they proposed the existence of as-yet-undiscovered planets whose gravity was causing the anomalies-sort of the Cold Dark Matter of the time. Sure enough, Neptune finally appeared in their telescopes. But the other planet, Vulcan, never did materialize. In the end, said Spergel, it took the theory of general relativity...