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...says Jim Harrington, legal director of the Texas Civil Rights Project. Harrington has not filed a major civil rights case in federal courts in the past seven years. Two years ago, though, he convinced the Texas Supreme Court that the state's constitutional right to privacy precluded mandatory lie-detector tests for state employees. And in 1984 he won the right to workers' compensation for itinerant field hands under a state equal-rights amendment passed...
...Governor of North Dakota came under fire from disapproving legislators who discovered a radar detector -- legal in North Dakota -- in his truck. Sinner explained that the fuzz buster was a gift from his children. Said he: "It's sort of a sacred, emotional thing...
Since 1968 scientists have been monitoring huge detectors for signs of these fleeting visitors from the sun. But so far, the results have been both disappointing and intriguing: the experiments have detected far fewer neutrinos than solar models predicted. Scientists were especially baffled by a recent report from a Soviet-American research team that set up a detector to monitor neutrinos emitted by the fusion of hydrogen atoms, the sun's main reaction. After four months of operation near the Soviet town of Baksan, the experiment has yet to turn up a single solar neutrino...
Finding any kind of neutrino is a neat trick. The Baksan detector consists of four tanks filled with 30 tons of the element gallium, which liquefies at about room temperature. If a solar neutrino of the right energy interacts with the material in the tanks, a feat of atomic alchemy will transmute some of the gallium into germanium, another metallic element...
...William Gray III, which proved to be ham-handed. Deputy Attorney General Ayer resigned when Thornburgh refused to turn the investigation over to the office charged with examining internal wrongdoing. Press secretary David Runkel and Robert Ross Jr., Thornburgh's right-hand man for internal affairs, fumbled on lie-detector tests and were reassigned. Even leak-buster Thornburgh strapped himself to a polygraph to prove he was cleaner than Caesar's wife...