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...innocent? All or none, depending on whom you ask. Since 1976, however, 65 have escaped the death house when their convictions were overturned. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once wrote, "No matter how careful the courts are, the possibility of perjured testimony, mistaken honest testimony and human error remain all too real. We have no way of judging how many innocent persons have been executed, but we can be certain that there were some...
From a telephone poll of 1,024 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on June 4-5 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error...
...industry--and with good reason. To be sure, speeding up the approval process at the Food and Drug Administration--where getting a new drug to market has often felt like swimming through Jell-O--is both a worthy and a popular cause. The appetite for free-market trial and error is limited, however, in a business where error has sometimes meant disfigurement or death. "There's a great push to try to cut down the FDA," says Fred Dorey of the Bay Area Bioscience Center in Oakland, Calif., a trade organization for biotechnology firms. "But that's from people...
Using the U.S. CPI, $6,000,000 in 1924 has the same purchasing power as $52,333,955.39 in 1995. We must note, however, that critics of the CPI argue that it overstates inflation. Considering the overwhelming importance of our calculations, we must understand the error that accompanies them...
Timothy Knowles says he shares his father's passion for working with his hands. Along with a capacity for solving problems through trial and error, Knowles says this love for handiwork is an inheritance from his own father...