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...Emissions from wildfires can have deleterious effects on air quality. As climate change brings higher temperatures and perturbs rainfall patterns over the next few decades, the effects on wildfires and regional air quality could be large,” the Harvard/NASA GISS team said in the press release...

Author: By Bethina Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: EPA Grants Go to Harvard, MIT | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

...HARVEY GISS SAW MARCIA CLARK RISE through the ranks as a district attorney and considers her something of a protage. But back in July 1994, less than three weeks after the double murder, the veteran prosecutor was already saying her case was as good as lost. For two reasons: one, O.J. Simpson was an American hero and thus "an unconvictable defendant." Second, "they've filed this case downtown, which means they're going to get a downtown jury. A black jury will not convict this defendant. Forget it. It's all over." Says Cochran: "I know the downtown jury panel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAKING THE CASE | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...case led him to reject many candidates who regularly read newspapers and magazines and watch TV news. (His approved fare for the dozen jurors: edited tapes of sitcoms and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.) "Ito cut down the pool of intelligent, independent people, and they weren't just whites," said Harvey Giss, a Los Angeles prosecutor. Even Dimitrius, though pleased with the outcome, said "Both sides lost good jurors in the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now, a Jury of His Peers | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...Whittier, Calif.; Ernest L. Baskin Jr., Sylvester, Ga.; Allan J. Caldwell, Burlington, Vt.; John F. Clark, Lynchburg, Va.; John J. Cooney Jr., Providence, R. I.; George C. Coquillard, South Bend, Ind.; Ray J. Diekemper, Los Angeles, Calif.; John C. Entz, Mesa, Ariz.; Edward H. Frost, University Heights, Ohio; Sargo Giss, Everett, Wash.; George E. Hamilton, River Forest, Ill.; Eugene S. Heckathorn, Indianapolis, Ind.; Herbert W. Hoskins Jr., Fairfield, Conn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 28 Busy Students Get $8400 In Scholarships | 9/26/1941 | See Source »

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