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...Philip Morris attorney Dan Webb's plea to jurors not to punish them with a large award, and his claim that the $145 billion award was "a death warrant": "He ignored the death warrant on the millions of lives of people [the tobacco industry] lied about," jury foreman Leighton Finegan said. "For them - Big Tobacco - this trial was about money. For us, it was about people's lives... We still feel they're arrogant...
...value of scientific communication and peer review is that...the data warrant the conclusions drawn," Walker says. "Gilligan is absolutely brilliant in interpreting and writing about these interview excerpts, but scholars in the field have no idea regarding the scientific integrity of the research that underlies these interpretations...
Although it criticizes the DOJ for failing to approve an FBI request to place Lee under electronic surveillance, the internal report faults the FBI for not initially searching the computer at Lee's office - for which no warrant was required - onto which he had downloaded reams of classified computer code. Lee has been unable to account for a number of tapes of downloaded code, and the DOJ report suggests that the slowness of the initial investigation may have given him time to dispose of these if, indeed, that had been his intention. Charging Lee late last year was interpreted...
...Working odd jobs to support his family, he spent his nights writing, throwing out whole novels he deemed unworthy. "I had periods of black depression," he says, "but I knew it would take years to learn what I had to do." His efforts have earned him enough recognition to warrant his own documentary (The Rough South of Larry Brown, now in production) and, more important, have given him the luxury to devote himself full time to writing. "It all boils down to individual desire, discipline and how much time you spend sitting alone in your room," he says...
...that works as a deterrent." By the time the cybercops barged through Reomel Ramones' front door Monday and started seizing computer equipment (but no computer, which was apparently disposed of while police tried to find a statute to prosecute on and a judge tech-savvy enough to issue a warrant), most offices and government agencies ravaged by the Love Bug last week had put their digital lives back together and passed out software patches to plug this Herbie's favorite holes. But no matter what their IT guys tell them, says Grossman, "virus writers will always be able to find...