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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jones was convicted of resisting and obstructing an arrest in June for her role in the November incident. A jury was unable to reach a verdict on the charge of assaulting a police officer, Benson said...

Author: By Amanda Cuda and Joseph Swavy, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY NEWSS | Title: Campus Police in Hot Seat | 9/17/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: The latest study to conclude that silicone breast implants do not cause severe illness could be the strongest verdict yet in favor of their manufacturers, reports TIME medical expert Christine Gorman. National Cancer Institute research gives the implants a "clean bill of health" as far as cancer and other diseases are concerned ? even though they frequently leak silicone throughout the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breast Implants Get Clean Bill of Health | 9/17/1997 | See Source »

...dramatic reform. Last year a federal jury in New York awarded Mason $1.2 million for her abduction to Alabama, a judgment that, though later reduced by the judge, sent a chill through the bounty-hunting community. Another family, terrorized in a Southern California Motel 6, won a $1.15 million verdict. Despite last week's deaths, damage awards like these are inexorably exerting a civilizing effect on a profession with a reputation for cutting legal corners. "The days of kicking doors and slapping whores are over," says Don Floyd, owner of Northeast Bail Bonds in Atlanta, who tries to be selective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MURDERS AT DAWN | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...Gore's top aides and money-raisers (TIME Daily) ... At the FDA's request, Redux and Fen/Phen manufacturers are withdrawing their drugs from the market (TIME Daily) ... Disgraced former Chinese Communist chief Zhao Ziyang, purged after the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, asks the party to reverse its verdict that those protests were a "counter-revolutionary rebellion" (TIME Daily) ... Thirty-three people are missing following a mysterious crash involving a U.S. Air Force transport plane and a German military airliner off the coast of Africa (TIME Daily) ... TIME magazine also reports that America Online is forging alliances with Microsoft (TIME Daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Headlines | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

Like beauty pageant contestants, the would-be hosts of the 2004 Summer Olympics ? who spent around $100 million strutting their stuff ? will be spending the holiday weekend in an excrutiating wait for the judges' verdict. All but one of the delegations from Athens, Rome, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town will go home humiliated and out-of-pocket when the International Olympic Committee convenes in Lausanne, Switzerland next Wednesday. Here they will announce the winning venue for the first games, technically speaking, of the new millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Week's News Now | 8/29/1997 | See Source »

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