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...another case decided last week, a New York State judge raised some doubts about the courtroom use of DNA technology. Forensic DNA tests seek to compare the genetic patterns of a suspect or victim with those of the human remains, such as blood or semen, left at the scene of a crime. Proponents of DNA identification have long insisted that the tests are so precise that they can establish matches or exclusions to a near certainty...
...Lifecodes Corp., one of the nation's leading DNA-testing firms. Sheindlin agreed that DNA techniques "are generally accepted in the scientific community and can produce reliable results." But he ruled that in the murder case of Bronx janitor Joseph Castro, Lifecodes "failed in several major respects to use the generally accepted scientific techniques and experiments for obtaining reliable results...
...necessity is the mother of invention, the threat of regulation is often its father. Faced with growing government pressure for cleaner automotive fuel, Atlantic Richfield last week became the first U.S. oil company to introduce an unleaded gasoline designed to run effectively in older vehicles that were built to use leaded fuel. The Los Angeles-based company said the new brand, Emission Control-1, will eliminate up to 15% of the pollution caused by cars built before 1975 and trucks from before 1980. While such vehicles represent only 15% of the Los Angeles area's cars and trucks, they produce...
...proclaimed that socialist countries had the right to invade a fellow socialist nation whenever the Communist political monopoly was threatened. The so-called Brezhnev Doctrine justified the tanks rolling into Prague and, by extension, Nikita Khrushchev's intervention in Hungary in 1956. But last December, Gorbachev announced that the "use or threat of force no longer can or must be an instrument of foreign policy...
Professional critics have mixed feelings about the guides. "I use it constantly," says Gael Greene, New York magazine's food maven. "When friends ask me for a suggestion about where to go, I use it to remind me of what I love." But Greene, like critic Elaine Tait of the Philadelphia Inquirer, also cautions that the Zagat ratings represent a "popularity poll," not an expert's informed judgment. "It's easy to be brave when your name's not on an opinion," says Tait...