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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state's disposal of its worst criminals doubt whether society ought to adopt such a powerful and dangerous weapon. After all, death is permanent: if we put someone in jail for life, we can always free him if new evidence crops up; but if we execute him, we cannot undo any subsequently discovered injustice. However, this is a difference in degree, not in kind. We must consider it a societal tragedy if we wrongfully incriminate the innocent, whether we kill or incarcerate them...

Author: By Michael M. Rosen, | Title: Clearing the Underbrush | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

...multimillion-dollar net worth, and for an unfortunate comment about a tax rebate: "Funny as it might seem, $500 is a lot of money to some people." But she convinced voters she felt their pain over Governor Jim Florio's $2.8 billion tax increase. It was her vow to undo the damage with a 30% income-tax cut that gave her a winning margin of 26,093 votes. This time, though, it is the feisty McGreevey who seems to be connecting with New Jersey's dollars-and-cents voters. The closeness of the race has already hurt Whitman's national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JERSEY'S FALLING STAR | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...cautionary science-fiction tale. And anyone who has cheated on an expense account can identify with a character like Hawke's, working a much bigger scam on a bureaucracy quiveringly alert to genetic impostors. A lost eyelash, a bit of exfoliated skin left on his keyboard could undo him--especially when the cops, led by a very querulous Alan Arkin, suddenly descend on his facility and, as they investigate a murder, start subjecting everyone's detritus to genetic spot checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CHIPS OFF THE OLD TEST TUBE | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...Crimson will try to undo its disappointment when it defends its undefeated status against three more tough Ivy League teams. The outcome of each match will prove critical to its season...

Author: By Tim M. Martin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Wins Deux | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

Like Hippocrates, Galen had become a medical icon, and it would take a bold idol smasher to undo him. History found the perfect candidate in Andreas Vesalius, a contentious young Flemish physician who, in his single-minded pursuit of the correct human anatomy, cared not a whit about Galen's untouchable authority. Gifted with intelligence, drive and the courage to stick with his convictions, he went his solitary way, dissecting cadaver after cadaver until he had made enough unbiased observations to write a book that would forever transform medicine's image of the human structure. Vesalius was 29 when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES OF MEDICINE | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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