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...Their verdict: a feeding T. rex could have exerted up to 3,011 lbs. of biting force. (It would have used greater force while attacking.) A human's bite, by comparison, packs 175 lbs.; a lion's, 937; and an alligator's, just under 3,000. The research addresses only one aspect of the predator vs. scavenger question. But if scientists can find several bones with T. rex bite wounds that later healed--showing that the animals weren't already dead when they were chomped on--that might settle the debate for good...
...JOSE, California: A jury recommended the death penalty for Richard Allen Davis, who has been described as a monster, in the murder of Polly Klaas. In true form, Davis smirked when the verdict was read. The jury ignored defense pleas that they act mercifully and consider Davis' troubled childhood. Davis, 42, admitted that he abducted Klaas from her bedroom during a slumber party in Petaluma, California, and later strangled her. He claimed he was doped up when he kidnapped her. "I guess I just wasn't meant to be on the streets," Davis said when he confessed to the murder...
...bankers can not be retried for is the charge that they conspired to conceal from the IRS $52,500 in cash withdrawals drawn from the Clinton gubernatorial campaign coffers. White House deputy counsel Bruce Lindsey had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in that alleged conspiracy. News of the verdict had the Clinton camp predicting that the Whitewater scandal would fade from the election-year radar screens. "It takes one more issue off the table for Republicans who think this is an important matter," said spokesman Joe Lockhart. Maybe, maybe not. Within the deadlocked counts against Branscum and Hill, there...
They did say that no decisions are imminent on whether to make the changes. Some administrators suggested that a final verdict would no be reached until this winter...
...second round of charges against Ted Kaczynski Friday as the 54-year-old suspected Unabomber was indicted for three 1980s blasts in Michigan, Tennessee, and Utah. Kaczynski would face up to 120 years in prison if convicted, but the Justice Department says it will not prosecute until a verdict is reached on current charges of transporting, mailing and using explosives in four lethal attacks. Kaczynski has pleaded not guilty in a Sacramento court to the previous indictments, which alone could lead to the death penalty. It's likely that additional charges will come forward, most notably for the bomb that...